LotM: Surviving as a Marionette

What Azik was referring to was Don manipulating the Spirit Body Threads to awaken this marionette.

The marionette had been staying obediently inside the gold coin all along, but then it suddenly popped its head out to look... Azik immediately felt somewhat of a headache coming on.

As an Angel of the Death pathway, Azik was equally clear about the limits of how many marionettes a Marionettist could manipulate, and he also knew that when facing a demigod of the Abyss pathway, once contaminated, this would be an almost certain outcome of madness for mid-Sequence Beyonders.

"Even if you have some confidence, some method to resist contamination, don't do this kind of thing again."

As a Sequence 2 Angel of the Death pathway, Azik understood that if the contamination from just now had spread along the Spirit Body Threads, it would have been a devastating blow for a Sequence 5.

Even though Don seemed to have certain secrets and didn't appear to be someone who would do things without certainty, Azik still felt this was very risky.

Don smiled awkwardly yet politely, manipulating his marionette to look around, preparing to shift the topic.

This topic seemed too heavy, and he felt like he was about to be lectured again...

System: [Host, this is what they call deep love leading to strict discipline~ hehe.]

Hehe your knowledge wasteland.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, Don communicated with his system in frustration: "Let's not talk about this first, hurry up and research whether you can send a sub-system or something to the marionette."

This way, he wouldn't get contamination splashed all over his face the moment he took control, and nearly get reverse-contaminated by that divine vessel.

Could Don say that he had only just realized he had been screwed over by his own marionette?

The 'Bionic Marionette' module gave the marionette tremendous autonomy. The Marionettist didn't need to manipulate the Spirit Body Threads at all times, which meant he similarly didn't need to constantly deal with various problems that might affect the marionette on that side.

This was the drawback of the 'Bionic Marionette' module.

Regular marionettes don't have corresponding autonomy and initiative, requiring the Marionettist to control them at all times. Therefore, for a Marionettist, this kind of marionette is the optimal 'eyes.'

But marionettes equipped with the 'Bionic Marionette' module were the complete opposite. When such a big commotion occurred on the marionette's side, producing such intense emotional fluctuations that were reflected back through the Spirit Body Threads, how could he possibly ignore the problems over there?

And once he intervened, Don, who didn't know the specific situation, immediately ran straight into the line of fire.

Although his spiritual intuition hadn't sensed any problems before connecting to the marionette on this side, being unable to immediately check the situation over there, with the system also not being on the marionette's side, meant he couldn't just casually throw out a few appraisals to assess the situation first.

He got ambushed this time, but it wasn't a big problem.

Being beside a Death Consul, his safety was obviously sufficiently guaranteed. Combined with his high-ranking spiritual essence and the system with demigod-level power, if he didn't dare to come take a look with this kind of configuration, he might as well stay in his castle and truly be a maggot.

If you ask, the answer is: he'd dare to do it again next time!

However, Dad, your future student is going to be much more troublesome than me...

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Don's wandering gaze moved back to look at his dad, suddenly becoming matter-of-fact, with a hint of 'pity.'

Azik: ??

He was both annoyed and amused, but ultimately didn't lecture him about this anymore.

"Father, is this still in Backlund?"

Don had just heard the two of them talking, and it seemed that divine vessel wanted to trigger a large-scale ritual in Backlund to respond to the Dark Side of Universe or the God of Death?

"Yes." Azik nodded, "Unfortunately, he escaped."

"However, even though he escaped, the commotion just now also attracted the attention of Backlund's church members."

"The Beyonders of the Church of the Evernight Goddess and the Church of the Lord of Storms have unimaginable influence in Backlund. Even a divine vessel of a deity wouldn't easily expose themselves here,"

Because that could very likely trigger divine descent from other deities.

Azik didn't mention the Church of the God of Craftmanship.

The God of Craftmanship's hasty advancement to Sequence 0 ultimately caused problems with His condition.

This hasty advancement also affected His believers' spread of faith in the Loen Kingdom. After all, there are only so many anchor points, and who gets more or less is somewhat related to the deity's condition and strength.

The spread of the God of Craftmanship's faith was undoubtedly not smooth in Loen, so the God of Craftmanship's influence in Backlund ultimately couldn't reach the level of the other two.

"Is he really a divine vessel of the Cosmos's dark side?" Don confirmed this point from his father, then asked again, "What exactly is that evil god planning? Father, does He want to rely on creating a large-scale disaster in Backlund to make His true body descend?"

Azik smiled mockingly, "Don't worry, the archbishops of the major churches, those divine representatives of the gods on earth, won't let that happen."

"Backlund isn't particularly stable right now. The East Borough that was carved out gathers a large number of vagrants and quite a few people who fled here from other places... Even so, if the Dark Side of Universe wants to perform a ritual and kill enough people, under circumstances where it has obviously attracted the attention of Backlund's churches, he would also find it difficult to accomplish."

"Causing a massacre in Backlund would be even more impossible to achieve."

Especially in the currently still chaotic East Borough, heaven knows just how many Beyonders are inside. The churches drag troublemakers back to their respective churches in groups to lock them up. As long as that divine vessel dares to take action, the next moment surrounding him would be Saints and Angels from the major churches.

As long as one's brain isn't damaged, they wouldn't touch the churches' nerves at this time.

After all, the Cosmos's dark side's original intention is to find other deities to help deal with the contamination, not to have other deities strike and kill Him along with the contamination.

Of course, if you add a Death pathway Angel to that...

Azik's words gave Don a shot of confidence, as he had remembered a major disaster from the original story.

The Great Smog of Backlund incident.

That was a truly terrifying disaster with corpses strewn everywhere.

"Perhaps I should find time to go to Backlund as well." Don pondered.

After all, Backlund was Loen's core, equivalent to the capital.

Such places had many dangers, but also many opportunities. If he wanted to develop his secret organization, Backlund was obviously unavoidable.

He remembered that his mother's relatives had some influence in Backlund, especially since his family had a marriage connection with someone called 'Hall' from East Chester County.

Emmm, how could this not be called fate?

However, he couldn't plan that far into the future right now. Don seized the time to tell his father about Amon while he had the chance.

He also wanted to ask if his father had any good solutions.

"Amon..." Azik frowned and said seriously, "He is very dangerous. It's best not to get close, especially Beyonders of the Seer, Apprentice, and Marauder pathways. When encountering Amon, the best approach is to stay away."

Angel King Amon—if one appeared in Tingen, it meant a group of Amons had already stationed themselves nearby.

This was not a good omen at all.

(End of Chapter)