Chapter 15: The Brand of Death

The "Grim Reaper" Sallinger, who was wandering in the "River of Eternal Darkness" in a daze, looked at Klein, who was wrapped in a gray "cocoon".

His pale flame was about to be extinguished, and in an instant, a bird-shaped gold ornament was reflected on Crane's chest.

In the next second, a low roar came from his rotten mouth and echoed above the river, causing the entire city of Calderon to shake visibly.

The tributary, which was sometimes rolling, sometimes falling, sometimes dark, sometimes pale, rose up toward the end of the stone staircase, and rushed madly towards Crane.

In this process, the illusory tide is more combined with the gray-white fog to take on a similar color.

The gray torrent slapped Klein's body in waves, but it couldn't destroy the "cocoon" around him.

The rotting body of the "Grim Reaper" Sallinger walked to the edge of the tributary step by step, but he could not get out of it, so he could only stand there and roar wildly.

Crane's gaze passed over him, to the uncountable blurred figures hovering on either side of the tributary.

Some of them have been swept up in the middle of the tributaries by the rising tide, sinking uncontrollably to the bottom of the river, melting like frost.

The rest of them had no fear, remained in a state of confusion, and walked back and forth endlessly.

At a glance, Crane saw many familiar figures.

They all belong to the same person, to Azik Eggers, who has a bronze complexion and soft features.

The "Archon of Death" seems to have split into multiple selves, wandering among the pale stone pillars on either side of the River of Eternal Darkness.

This...... At the same time as Klein's heart moved, his right leg suddenly felt cold.

He subconsciously looked down and saw a pale palm.

The palm pierced through the gray "cocoon" and grabbed at his calf.

And the owner of this palm floated in the torrent, like a water ghost, trying to pull Crane into the deep water.

Its attack can ignore the aura of the "Source Fort"!

Perceiving Crane's gaze, the owner of the pale palm lifted his head, revealing his face.

He has black hair and brown eyes, ordinary facial features, and a little bookish air.

Klein Moretti!

This "water ghost" is Klein Moretti!

In the next second, Crane's left leg, right shoulder, and left arm were also grabbed by different pale palms.

This made him cold, his spirit body seemed to freeze, and all his extraordinary abilities could not be used, and it was difficult to even struggle.

The three pale palms belonged to different blurred figures, and these different blurred figures had the same face.

Crane Moretti's face!

Dragged by these four "water ghosts", Klein's body gradually broke away from the gray "cocoon" and sank into the torrent.

His body grew colder, his thoughts fell silent, his vision darkened little by little, and eventually only swaying, lightless waves remained.

Above the gray mist, inside the ancient palace, Crane's consciousness returned to its original form.

Then, without hesitation, he reached out and invoked the power of the "Source Fort" to steal an item from the latter through his connection to the historical projection.

A little gold flashed, and Crane grasped the bird-shaped gold ornament.

At the same time, he lifted the maintenance of historical pore images.

The figure that "drowned" in the eternal darkness flood disappeared.

"You can ignore the aura of the 'Source Castle', which means that those four figures are really me...... But how could I be trapped in a tributary of the River of Eternal Darkness, wandering endlessly?Four figures, four figures......" Crane tapped the edge of the mottled table with a calm expression, inspired by the sound of tuk tuk.

The fact that corresponds to the "four" and "spirit, death" is that he has died four times and has been resurrected four times.

Of course, after becoming a "secret attendant", the four resurrection chances were reset again.

"Every time you die, whether you are resurrected or not, you leave a mark on the 'River of Eternal Darkness'?" I have died four times, so there are four figures hovering on both sides of the River of Eternal Darkness?" Klein roughly grasped the key to this, and then sighed in his heart, "The 'River of Eternal Darkness' is worthy of being essentia, worthy of being a symbol of death, eternal sleep, end, end, deep darkness, etc...... Well, when I was 'drowned' in the historical projection just now, I suffered a certain amount of mental damage, and if my mental state was unstable, it is very likely that something has gone wrong now. ”

Based on this inference, Klein has a new understanding of the numerous Azk figures and the wandering "Grim Reaper" Sallinger:

They are all the corresponding imprints of death.

"Mr. Azik did die many times during the 'immortal' stage, and later in the process of recovering his memories, but he came back to life each time. According to the current situation, although the 'undead' is immortal, there are also great hidden dangers, and when the number of deaths increases, maybe one day the body will be attracted to the 'River of Eternal Darkness' and become one of the figures that wander eternally...... Sallinger's figure has only one ...... This shows that when uniqueness is accommodated, the imprint of one's own death will also be unique. Klein's thoughts flickered, and he was a little worried about Mr. Azik's future survival.

And there are two ways to solve this hidden danger, one is to replenish Azik's soul so that he will not repeat it before, and the other is to help the "Goddess of the Night" become the old days and control this "river of eternal darkness".

"Hehe, maybe it's a two-in-one choice: the goddess is a thing of the past, and there's no need to use half of Mr. Azik's soul anymore. Crane gathered his thoughts and turned his attention back to the purpose of this time.

He entered the depths of Calderón not to settle the death mark of the "Grim Reaper" Salinger, so that he would never have any hope of resurrection, but to take some water from the "River of Eternal Darkness".

"Obviously, the illusory tide that overflows the river is not good, it is just a diffuse breath, not the river itself. Also, the river water fused with gray and white mist is not good, it is not pure enough, and it should not achieve the desired effect. In this way, the river water can only be taken when the tributaries return to a deep dark state, and the main trunk cannot enter at all, and the gray mist must be a strong barrier. Based on his analysis, Klein quickly drew up a plan.

That is, not to get close to the "River of Eternal Darkness", not to attract the attention of the "Grim Reaper" Sallinger, wait until the tributaries retreat and become dark, and then go directly, letting his four death imprints drag the historical projection to the bottom of the river.

In this process, the historical projection seized the opportunity to take some river water with bird-shaped gold ornaments, and then, the consciousness was transferred back to the "source fort", relying on the ability to "steal" and the close connection between the two, to take away the bird-shaped gold ornaments.

After refining the next steps, Crane returned to Calderon, a spirit city, and once again summoned his own historical pore influence.

He repeated the previous process, and soon returned to the stone tablet with the bronze giant bird statue, and descended step by step down the gray stone staircase.

The aura of "Source Fort" around him gradually became stronger, turning into a thin "silkworm cocoon".

It didn't take long for Crane to reach the end of the staircase again, and he saw the "River of Eternal Darkness" flowing through nothingness, the pale pillars on either side of it, and the countless vague figures hovering at the edge of the tributaries.

This time, he did not rush forward, but broke away from the stairs, and waited patiently until the water of the tributaries receded, turning gray and dark.

It's now!Klein's figure flashed, stealing the distance, and appeared in a corner that Sallinger couldn't see.

No accident, as his body immersed in the water of the "River of Eternal Darkness", one pale palm after another immediately penetrated the breath of the "Source Castle" and grabbed his legs and arms.

Four of his death marks loom around him, dragging him to the bottom of the river!

The deep darkness of the river flooded Crane's head, leaving his body cold and his thoughts silent.

Before he could lose consciousness completely, Crane's neck was filled with transparent and twisted worms, which quickly crawled to the side of the bird-shaped gold ornament, surrounded it, and lifted it up, ready to draw the water of the "River of Eternal Darkness".

At this moment, a huge shadow appeared in the illusory river swaying in front of Klein's eyes.

It was a giant bird that had been completely submerged by a tributary of the River of Eternal Darkness and was suspended in the water.

The giant bird's body was covered with pale flames and mystical feathers, but it had been melted away by the "River of Eternal Darkness", revealing part of its dark, rotten, yellowish pus-covered skin.

The eyes of the giant bird seem to be cast in bronze, and there are layers of illusory doors hidden inside.

Gregaret, the ancestor of the immortal birds!

The Ancient Reaper who opened up the underworld!

Gregaret's eyes burst with bronze light, enveloping the bird-shaped gold ornament and Crane's historical projection, dragging them together.

After weighing the current situation, Crane made a split second and gave up trying to draw water from the river.

His consciousness immediately returned to the "Source Fort" and stole the bird-shaped gold ornament back.

His historical projections dissipated.

There are dangers in the water, too...... Gregali, the ancestor of the immortal birds, has completely sunk into the "River of Eternal Darkness...... If the goddess truly accommodates the uniqueness of the "Grim Reaper" pathway, Salinger should not take the opportunity to resurrect in his body, and she should also sink into the water like Gregarie, and Gregali's death mark will further dissolve as a result...... Klein sighed silently and revised the action plan accordingly.

Then, as before, he summoned the image of the historical pore and returned to the end of the staircase.

After waiting for a while, when "Death" Sallinger turned around and walked heavily and slowly towards the river, Klein suddenly stole the distance and appeared in front of the other party.

In the next second, Sallinger let out a low roar, causing the water level of the tributary to rise rapidly.

At the same time, Crane is caught by his own death marks and dragged to the bottom of the river, sensing the undead ancestor Gregaret.

As before, Gregaret's bronze eyes burst with light.

However, it was not Klein and the bird-shaped gold ornaments that shrouded this light, but the "Grim Reaper" Sallinger.

"Grafting"!

Seizing this brief opportunity, the "Spirit Worms" crawling out of the Klein Historical Projection lifted the bird-shaped gold ornaments.

The bronze eyeballs of this ornament also emit light, drawing a small amount of river water.

In the next moment, Crane's consciousness returned to the "Source Fort" and raised his hand to retrieve the ornament.

Whew, it's finally done...... Looking at the bird-shaped gold ornament in his palm, he exhaled slowly.

For the owner of the "Source Fort", this task is indeed not too difficult, as long as he does not recklessly enter in his body, he can rely on failure after failure to accumulate experience and figure out the situation.

And if it weren't for the existence of two "Grim Reapers" in the tributaries of the "River of Eternal Darkness" at the same time, one wandering and the other sinking to the bottom, Crane would not have failed twice.