Lord of the Mysteries: The New Black Emperor

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The members of the Tarot Club did not expect that although the Backlund bombing had ended, this international metropolis would become even more turbulent.

Not only did a Sequence 1 Angel of the "Seer" pathway arrive, but this Angel was also very likely to attract a clone of Amon.

"The Star" Leonard asked, "Why would the Archangel of the 'Seer' pathway appear in Backlund?"

Klein manipulated "The World" to answer, "It seems to be related to the Evernight Goddess's plan."

Leonard was even more confused: "What plan does the Goddess have?"

The other members were also stunned and curious about what plan the Evernight Goddess might have.

Among them, "Justice" Audrey suddenly realized: Unknowingly, we have become so calm when discussing gods and their plans.

"The Hanged Man" Alger realized the difference in this matter: Previously, we also exchanged information about gods, but those were basically things that happened in the last epoch or several epochs ago, but this time, we are mentioning a plan that the gods are currently carrying out.

"I'm not very clear about the specifics either." "The World" said: "But according to my observations, the Evernight Goddess seems to want to create chaos in Backlund."

Based on the previous few prayers, Klein keenly realized that the Goddess seemed unable to descend recently.

As for why she couldn't descend, he guessed that it might be to accommodate the Uniqueness of the "Death" pathway, but he wasn't sure about his guess and just felt that this idea was more reasonable.

As for the Goddess's plan, Klein guessed that the arrival of Zaratul and Amon's clone might be because the Evernight Goddess was afraid that her inability to descend would be known by her enemies, so she wanted to create chaos in Backlund, so that the Goddess's enemies' actions in Backlund would be somewhat constrained.

What Klein couldn't understand was that the Goddess seemed to have prevented Zaratul from advancing to Sequence 1 before, and the Evernight Goddess Church's attitude towards Amon's clone was also not very friendly.

Letting these two guys come would indeed cause the extraordinary world of Backlund to be somewhat chaotic, but there was also a high possibility that they would discover that the Evernight Goddess had been unable to descend for a while recently, right?

At the Tarot Club, Hobert, who had read the "script," was very clear: The Goddess now wished that the whole world knew that she couldn't descend! As for the reason why she couldn't descend, it was of course because she was "trying to accommodate the Uniqueness of the Death pathway"! It didn't matter whether others believed it or not, as long as it gave the God of Combat enough sense of urgency.

Everyone had their own guesses about "The World's" words, but they all felt that they were not getting to the point.

So they habitually looked at "The Emperor" together, and Hobert smiled and said: "Our focus has been on the Southern Continent recently, and we don't know much about the situation in Backlund."

Then he added: "Even if I were in Backlund, that would be a god's plan, how could Beyonders like us understand it?

"I suggest we wait and see for this kind of thing. When the Goddess's plan finally has a result, we will naturally be able to roughly guess the Goddess's plan through some performances of the Evernight Goddess Church."

Everyone smiled helplessly. Of course, they understood what "The Emperor" meant: This is a god's plan. As an ordinary Beyonder, do you still want to participate in the god's plan?

Soon, Alger started a new topic: "According to my observation, the Storm Church is not very active in this war."

Klein was somewhat surprised: Not very active? This doesn't fit the image of the Storm Church. Although their teachings neither advocate fighting nor promote war, they definitely emphasize treating enemies with storm-like ferocity and venting any anger on the spot.

But then he thought: The "Sailor" pathway and the "Spectator" pathway are adjacent pathways that can be exchanged at a high level, and there are huge contradictions between them. Even if the "Lord of Storms" tacitly allows George III to become the "Black Emperor," it is unlikely that he will sit idly by and watch Adam ascend to the throne of God by borrowing the "tide of the times."

Klein thought of the "Sailors" who were trying hard to restrain themselves and sighed in his heart: It's really hard for them.

Hobert responded to Alger: "This is normal. After all, the 'Sailor' cannot support the 'Spectator's' plan to become a god."

He said: "But it's hard to say in the future. Currently, either the Feysac Empire will be quickly defeated, or George III will give up becoming a god, otherwise the war may continue for a while.

"And if this war continues, anything could happen."

Alger commented: "The current situation is becoming more and more confusing."

At the same time, he thought: I also think so. Precisely because it is an adjacent pathway to the "Spectator," the Church is unwilling to see itself helping Adam realize his plan.

"Justice" Audrey, who knew some inside information, thought of the Intis's strange silence in this war and was vaguely worried.

At the same time, this was also Earl Hall's worry. In theory, it was normal for the Feynapotter Kingdom to have not yet expressed its position, after all, it was the weakest of the four countries in the Northern Continent, and the previous large-scale wars were also like this, it would not easily declare war, nor would it easily take sides.

But the Intis Republic, as the second strongest country in the Northern Continent, has not yet expressed its position, which is very strange!

"The Hermit" Cattleya also understood what "The Emperor" meant based on the corresponding mystical knowledge. She did not discuss the current situation in the Northern Continent, but talked about a question that she had always had in her heart: "According to some information I have learned, almost all pathways have adjacent pathways.

"But only the 'Monster' pathway seems to have no adjacent pathways. This phenomenon is a bit strange."

"The Magician" Fors suddenly realized that through the previous transaction with Hobert, they almost knew most of the adjacent pathways among the 22 pathways:

"Apprentice," "Seer," and "Marauder" are adjacent pathways; "Spectator," "Sailor," "Reader," "Scribe," and "Secret Suppliant" are adjacent pathways.

There are also "Warrior," "Sleepless," and "Corpse Collector" that are adjacent pathways. The rest are two adjacent pathways, "Lawyer" and "Arbiter," "Hunter" and "Assassin," "Prisoner" and "Criminal," "Savant" and "Mystery Pryer."

Fors hadn't noticed before that there was indeed only one pathway left among the 22 pathways, and it was the "Monster" pathway that they had rarely mentioned before. It seemed that they had only briefly mentioned this pathway when trading information about the King of Angels, Ouroboros.

At this time, almost all the other members understood what the Hermit meant. All pathways have adjacent pathways. Suddenly, there is such a pathway without adjacent pathways, which is strange in itself.

Hobert smiled and said: "Has everyone ever thought about a question? Many non-adjacent pathways, but there are some similar abilities between them.

"For example, the Witch's frost attack is very similar to the frost attack of the 'Prisoner' pathway, and for example, the 'Lawyer's' charm is also very similar to the Witch's charm, and there is also the 'Hunter's' fireball and the 'Criminal' pathway's fireball. There are many such examples."

This made Klein suddenly think of "Vice Admiral Iceberg" Edwina, who mentioned a theory in "Groselle's Travels."

Since this topic has been discussed here, he shared his conversation with "Vice Admiral Iceberg" at that time: "I have heard of such a thing. A long time ago, some Beyonder creatures tried to collect the Beyonder characteristics of an element.

"For example, as 'The Emperor' said, the frost abilities of the Witch and the 'Prisoner' pathways. At that time, the Beyonder characteristics did not seem to be as stable as they are now. It would be more accurate to call them mystical elements.

"In short, those Beyonder creatures tried their best to collect frost-like elements. Their abilities did not become stronger, but they were more prone to losing control."

Klein guessed: "This makes me think of such a point of view. Could it be that our current Beyonder characteristics were originally pure Beyonder elements?

"In the random devouring of Beyonder creatures, these elements merged with each other and formed the initial Beyonder characteristics.

"In the Second Epoch, through the repeated crushing and reorganization of the ancient gods, the elements presented a state that could make creatures more stable after devouring them.

"Until the appearance of the 'Blasphemy Slate,' these combinations were completely formalized, so there are now Beyonder characteristics?"

Everyone first felt a heavy sense of history, and then felt that "The World's" idea made a lot of sense.

Cattleya thought: Theoretically, Beyonder characteristics should have an initial state. The abilities at that time should be relatively simple. For example, the "Mystery Pryer" pathway would only perform "Spellcasting," for example, the "Apprentice" would only shuttle through the spirit world. Under some coincidences, Beyonder creatures discovered that these elements with distorted characteristics could be balanced to a certain extent, so they gradually developed to the current Beyonder characteristics.

The other members also had similar ideas and felt that the formation process of Beyonder characteristics was the process of resisting the distorted characteristics of Beyonder abilities.

"This is exactly what I want to say." Hobert said: "This should also involve the issue of Beyonder characteristics becoming more and more 'warm.' The owner of each Beyonder characteristic should have left a trace of spiritual residue in the characteristic.

"This makes the Beyonder characteristics that were originally very cold and not suitable for creatures to take gradually resonate with the creatures and have an opportunity to merge with each other."

The other members realized that the opportunity "The Emperor" was talking about might be the "Acting Method."

Hobert continued: "I don't know if everyone remembers the issue of divinity that we talked about before.

"In my opinion, divinity is similar to the 'consciousness of the universe,' which are some cold abstract products for creatures.

The Beyonder characteristics derived from these products are, of course, distorted and cold to living beings.

But in my opinion, after generations of spiritual residue 'warming' them, these Beyonder characteristics should be much 'softer' than they were at the beginning.

He paused and added: "Even if there was a process of mutual fusion of Beyonder elements a long time ago, the main authority of a pathway, that is, the Uniqueness, will not change."

"So the extraordinary is still distorted to living beings, and it is still difficult to tame."

"After learning about the above guesses, let's look at the 'Monster' pathway again. Perhaps it does not have adjacent pathways, but its adjacent pathways are scattered into other pathways?"

Hobert smiled and said: "This is my guess. There is no evidence at present, but as far as I know, after the 'Sleepless' becomes a demigod, they have the ability of 'Misfortune'. This ability is to temporarily change the fate of the target, making the target very unlucky."

"Also, as we said before, Amon's ability to steal fate, it is difficult to say whether he can steal the target's fate without similar authority related to the fate pathway?"

The hall was silent for a few seconds, and everyone was digesting the "Emperor's" words.

Alger was the first to say: "It is very possible, because the main Beyonder characteristics are scattered, and the corresponding authority is also scattered, so the corresponding Uniqueness is also diluted?

"Or because there are no Beyonders in that pathway, so the Uniqueness of that pathway has returned to the state of 'Cosmic Consciousness'?"

The other members first felt that the "Hanged Man's" guess was very reasonable, and then they realized one by one that what they were discussing was the most core part of the Beyonder world.

Moreover, such discussions do not seem to have too much information that can be referred to, and it is also difficult to verify!

This is like a physics student who has been studying very hard. When he finally makes some guesses about the universe, he finds that there is no literature to refer to and no theory to support it.

At this time, he belatedly realized that his thinking was already at the forefront of physics.

Hobert added: "There is another possibility, that is, the adjacent pathways of the Fate pathway are not in the real world!"

Everyone was stunned again. At this time, most of the members could not keep up with Hobert's thinking and had to work hard to understand what he meant.

Only Klein, Alger, and Cattleya could keep up with Hobert's thinking, mainly because they were discussing with Hobert.

Cattleya asked after hearing Hobert's new point of view: "Not in the real world, is it in the spirit world?"

"Maybe it's in the spirit world." At present, Hobert has no plans to talk about the Beyonder characteristics that initially tore apart the Outer Gods, so he did not make a specific explanation: "Maybe it's in other places."

Cattleya chewed on Hobert's answer: "Other places?"

At this time, "The World" sitting at the bottom suddenly said: "For example, the cosmos."

Cattleya instantly associated it with the Outer Gods, but because of the lack of key information, some of her guesses stopped there.

Hobert suddenly clapped his hands: "I suggest that we only discuss this issue here, and continue the discussion after we have further clues."

Everyone nodded slowly, because the lack of sufficient clues made it impossible to continue the discussion.

However, the discussion just now was enough for everyone to savor, at least basically clarifying the characteristics of "Beyonder characteristics".

After spending more than ten seconds digesting the content of the discussion just now, the Tarot Club members all looked at "The Sun" Derrick.

At the Tarot Club last week, Derrick's exploration team had already arrived at the afternoon town camp and planned to rest for a day before exploring the "Giant King's Court". So at this time, their exploration should have ended.

Derrick sat up straight and said very consciously: "We have completed the first exploration of the 'Giant King's Court'. Three people died, one person was missing, and five people survived.

"We first arrived at the main entrance of the royal court and saw two 'Silver Knights' guarding there in an unknown state."

He explained very considerately: "'Silver Knight' is the name of Sequence 3 of the 'Giant' pathway."

Everyone was stunned for a moment before they realized that the "Giant" pathway was the "Warrior" pathway.

"The Moon" Emlyn, Audrey and several other members all felt almost the same in their hearts: As expected of the 'Giant King's Court', the kingdom of the ancient god, actually using two Sequence 3 demigods to guard the main entrance.

Only Hobert thought in his heart: What a waste.

This made him think that among the Beyonders in the military that he cultivated, many Beyonders in the "Warrior" pathway have already been promoted to Sequence 7. Should he find an opportunity to obtain these two "Silver Knight" Beyonder characteristics?

At this time, Derrick continued: "According to a hidden passage provided by Mr. World, we bypassed to the back of the 'Giant King's Court', and encountered many monsters mainly composed of wraiths along the way…"

Klein, who had watched the "live broadcast" with "True Sight" at the time, sighed: Little Sun is really not a storyteller.

The battles that took place along the way were very exciting, allowing Klein to see the close cooperation of the City of Silver exploration team, which is rarely seen elsewhere.

"After arriving at the 'Withered Forest', we tried to explore it." Derrick said: "Soon we discovered that the Giant King's remaining will and the power of the Divine Kingdom combined to form an evil spirit.

"It is guarding the mausoleum of its parents…"

This reminded Audrey and Leonard of their previous exploration experience with "The World" in "Groselle's Travels". According to the giant guard, the Giant King even prevented his queen and children from approaching the "Withered Forest".

Derrick stopped here, and subconsciously recalled the scene he saw at the time before continuing: "After purifying that evil spirit, we came to the tomb of the Giant King's parents.

"There was a stone tablet erected there, indicating the identity of the tomb owner, and the tomb and coffin had been opened. Inside… inside there were two human remains!"

Hearing this, Cattleya's first reaction was that the two corpses had other identities: Godfather and godmother? No, there was no religion at that time?

Then, she recalled some questions that the Queen had thought of after being inspired by Emperor Roselle: Why do even ancient literature and historical data refer to giants, elves, and Sanguine as humanoid creatures or human-like creatures?

Why not call humans giant-like, elf-like, or Sanguine-like creatures?

Then Cattleya thought of the "Emperor's" previous explanation of the "humanoid creature camp" in the Second Epoch. She remembered that there was a key point that the "Emperor" did not explain, only saying that he would explain it after he had evidence.

She suspected that the "Emperor" already had some guesses about this at that time?

Alger suspected for the first time that someone had faked the scene, but he thought that it was not as simple as just taking away the real bones and replacing them with human bones.

It is also necessary to prepare a suitable coffin so that the specifications of the tomb do not look like it belongs to a giant. The key is that this kind of forgery has no practical significance and will not have too much impact on reality.

This made Alger feel that no one should do such a boring thing.

Finally, he touched his hair and thought of his father, who was a mixed race of elves and humans.

Thinking of this, Alger was the first to accept this fact.

At this moment, Emlyn was the most surprised member, and his mind was full of thoughts of "impossible" and "this is impossible": If the ancestor of the giants is human, what about the Sanguine? Are we just monsters produced by Beyonder characteristic mutations?

Emlyn denied it again in his heart: Impossible! We were clearly created by the ancestor himself. He has the authority of "Life" and "Creation", which is completely different from the barbaric gods like the Giant King and the Elf King who only know how to fight.

But his intuition, his rationality, and his brain all told him that "The Sun" had no motivation to lie about this matter.

"This reminds me of a previous guess about the Second Epoch." Hobert said: "'The Sun's' description provides key evidence for that guess."

Cattleya: As expected.

The other members were also attracted by Hobert's words from the surprise just now and all looked in the direction of the "Emperor".

Hobert said seriously: "Do you all remember the 'humanoid creature camp' and the 'non-human creature camp' that we mentioned when we were talking about the camps of the ancient gods in the Second Epoch?

"At that time, I questioned the names of these two camps and made two guesses. The first guess was that all the existing information about the Second Epoch was written by humans, so the camps were distinguished from a human perspective."

Everyone recalled the transaction at that time, and also recalled the second guess that the "Emperor" did not explain at that time. Combined with the description of "The Sun", everyone seemed to immediately understand why the "Emperor" would have reservations at that time.

Because that guess was indeed too shocking without evidence!

Hobert continued: "My second guess is that the Giant King, the Elf King, and the Sanguine Ancestor all clearly knew that their respective races were derived from humans.

"So they all acknowledge the name 'humanoid creature camp'."

"Why?" Emlyn asked somewhat excitedly: "Mr. Emperor, why is this? I mean, I mean humans will evolve into giants, elves, and blood races?"

Hobert was not as serious as he was just now: "We just discussed this issue."

Emlyn's face was ashen: "Because of Beyonder characteristics?"

"That's right, Beyonder characteristics." Hobert said: "Beyonder characteristics are not friendly to any living being. Their appearance caused some humans to undergo drastic mutations in a short period of time."

He continued to explain, "This also explains why the Giant King and the others didn't accept the 'Devil Monarch' Farbauti into their camp, because in their eyes, demons are not creatures derived from humans."

Cattleya sighed, "Many questions are now making sense."

Klein thought of another question, and he manipulated 'The World' to ask, "In other words, humans existed before Beyonder characteristics? And Beyonder characteristics seemed to appear suddenly?"

Hobert smiled and said, "I don't know."

He thought to himself, "There should be relevant clues in that stack of diaries you just put away."

This topic caused all the members to sigh inwardly for more than ten seconds. Derrick also calmed down before continuing, "After leaving the 'Withered Forest,' we entered the interior of the 'Giant's Royal Court' through the 'Barren Tunnel.'"

"The power of 'Corruption' and 'Concealment' remained along the way, and we had to respond correctly to pass through."

"Inside that palace, there were murals containing the power of 'Cycle of Fate.' We were affected by it and transformed into people attending a gathering, repeating a process."

He solemnly said, "That was the process of the 'Rose Redemption' being established!"

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