Mystery: Undead don't die from passing fire

"He is indeed crazy too."

The True Creator stared at the sky dyed red by the 'First Fire' in the distance, and his eyes under the shadow curtain seemed to have a hint of mockery.

Adam has always thought that he was crazy because he inherited the negative personality and extreme emotions before his death from the 'ancient sun god'. In Adam's eyes, this is fallen human nature, and madness is inevitable.

And this is indeed the case. The ravings heard by the followers of the Aurora Society are the best proof.

The true Creator has been aware of the nature of his madness long ago, but His consciousness has always been clear.So He knew that his madness was only temporary. Once divinity and humanity merged into one, madness would become a thing of the past.

However, if the lonely yin does not last, the lonely yang will not grow.

Since He who is only human is already crazy, how can Adam, who is only divine, be an exception?

From birth, Adam was a madman, just like Amon.

They are all purely divine creatures, and they are born with only divinity.

In order to maintain his 'self' and fight against his original will, Amon chose to split himself into countless clones, using these clones to form his 'anchor'.This approach is unique in the world.

Whether it is Pales Zoroaster or the ancestors of the Jacob family, they were all angels in the Thief Path Sequence 1, but none of them would behave in a 'maverick' way like Amon. way to form an anchor point.

It’s not because they don’t know the benefits of doing so, but because they know the disadvantages of doing so!
It is true that using clones can indeed form an effective and stable anchor point. From now on, you don't have to worry about your anchor point being targeted by the enemy, because as long as the main body is still alive, you can recreate countless clones.

However, while the anchor point is stable, it also has another consequence, which will make them unable to distinguish between virtuality and reality.

In theory, every angel and god needs to use the anchor of faith to confront divinity, once and for all to find and stabilize their own humanity.

And whether it is 'divinity' or 'faith', its essence is a kind of pollution!
If we want to use Freud's personality structure theory to describe it, then 'human nature' is the 'self', and 'divinity' and 'belief' are both 'superego' - 'divinity' is the 'super ego' from the Creator. I', and 'faith' comes from the believers' superego for the perfect image of God.

If either party is too strong, it will lead to the deviation of 'human nature', and the 'self' will be believed in by the 'superego', and from then on 'I' will no longer be me.

Therefore, neither 'divinity' nor 'faith' can have direct contact with 'humanity'.Only when the two 'super-ego's confront each other and cancel each other out can 'human nature' maintain the 'ego'.

Therefore, for most existences, their 'divinity', 'faith' and 'humanity' exist at the same time but are independent and distinct from each other. Only in this way can the 'self' be prevented from being contaminated by the 'superego'.

But Amon's approach is completely different!

For Him, 'divine' is still the 'superego' that needs to be fought.

However, 'faith' no longer originates from believers, but from its own avatar, that is, from a part of its 'self'.This approach seems to be the same thing, because as long as Amon has a deep enough understanding of himself and allows his clones to have the same understanding, his 'self' can be maintained more firmly than others.

But in fact, what Amon did was to forcibly combine the originally distinct 'faith' and 'self' - the function of 'faith' is no longer to fight against divinity, but only exists to shape the 'self'!
But in this way, 'divinity' will lose its restraints, and as time goes by, in the increasingly confused self-perception, it will gradually merge with 'faith' and 'self'. From then on, the two spirits will be completely Stitched together, inseparable!

In other words, 'madness' is almost the inevitable outcome of Amon.

The same goes for Adam, who only slowly went crazy over time.

And after Adam was replaced by the divinity of the 'ancient sun god' and became today's 'Adam', this madness became more and more obvious.

Adam believed that he was the incarnation of divinity and a symbol of perfection. He believed that he, who represented absolute reason, was more suitable to be the dominant consciousness than the true Creator. But this was precisely the embodiment of Adam's madness!

But now, Adam's madness has made him not satisfied with the status quo, and instead began to encourage the 'First Fire' to forcibly destroy the barriers set up by the 'Lord of Mysteries' in an attempt to return the sealed source matter.

Before the end is coming, release the sealed source matter in advance.

This approach cannot be said to be good or bad, but it is definitely crazy!
Adam knew that he was unable to regain authority from other channels and could not control the Sea of ​​Chaos. At the same time, he did not want to merge with the true Creator so quickly and lose his 'self'.Therefore, 'Adam's' road has come to an end. The dual-pathway true god is his limit, and his strength will only stagnate from now on.

If you release the essence at this time, the only way to gain profit is through other means.

Because among all the sefirot, only the 'Sea of ​​Chaos' has the same origin as Adam, and the 'Sea of ​​Chaos' is in the hands of the true Creator. If Adam wants to forcibly accommodate other 'sefirot', loss of control is inevitable.

But unlike Adam, these sefirot have completely different meanings to other beings. Once they obtain the corresponding sefirot, they truly have the ticket to advance to the past.As long as you pay enough price, it is not impossible to advance to the Old One before the end!
But in the final analysis, the release of these sefirot is just making wedding clothes for others. What good can this do to Adam?
It is true that the 'Lord of Steam' and the 'Original Witch' will have the opportunity to be promoted to the Old One once they obtain the source of essence, and both of them are Adam's die-hard allies and will inevitably stand on his side, but so what?
It is impossible for Adam to control all the released source matter. Although the 'Lord of Steam' and the 'Original Witch' can use the 'Wildness of Knowledge' and the 'City of Disaster' to advance to the past, the Goddess of the Night, the Mother Goddess of the Earth and even the Black Emperor can also There is also a chance!
Calculating this, the best situation is two versus three, and Adam is still at a disadvantage.

unless--

"Shadow World?"

The eyes behind the shadow curtain flickered slightly. Adam cooperated with the big snake from the abyss more than once, and the other party happened to represent the 'abyss' path.Although the uniqueness of the 'Bound One' path adjacent to the 'Abyss' is in the hands of Ember, the big snake will never be able to advance to the past through this in this life.

But this does not prevent the big snake from controlling the source of matter, and even swallowing the source of matter.

And in this way, the only source of essence left is the Key of Light...

The shadow curtain that was about to expand to the entire land abandoned by the gods suddenly paused, and the true creator stopped his original actions.

He originally wanted to stop the 'First Fire', but now it seems that this seems impossible.

The True Creator cast his gaze on Ouroleus, his eyes full of meaning.

Among all 22 paths, 'Mother' and 'Moon' are the most special, because these two paths do not come directly from the Creator, but from the fallen Mother Goddess, one of the nine sources of matter, the 'Mother's Nest'. The same is true, that was once part of the essence possessed by the fallen Mother Goddess, but was torn apart and attracted by the resurrection of the Creator, and then landed in this world.

Of course, since the sefirot has the ability to replenish itself, even though the sefirot of the 'Fallen Mother Goddess' was once incomplete, it has now been completed. She is still the genuine old self, and the separated 'Mother's Nest' is also The same can create an old person, and the two are now on equal footing.

So once the 'Earth Mother Goddess' becomes an old person, she even hopes to compete with the fallen Mother Goddess for the ability to symbolize the 'pillar'.As for the Fallen Mother Goddess, in order to get back the 'pillar' symbol, she must also reintegrate the mother's nest. This is why she covets this world.

But if we put aside the 'Brother's Nest' and the corresponding 'Mother' and 'Moon' paths, as well as the corresponding pillar paths of 'Origin Castle' and 'Chaos Sea', among the remaining six major sources of matter, the most special one is undoubtedly It is the 'Key of Light'.

Other sefirot correspond to at least two pathways, and only by accommodating both pathways can they become the past.

But the 'Key of Light' is different. It has only one corresponding path, the 'Wheel of Fortune'.

This also means that as long as someone can become Sequence 0 of the 'Wheel of Fortune' pathway, they can directly accommodate the 'Key of Light' and become the old days!

And beside the true Creator, the 'Angel of Destiny' Ourolius happens to possess two copies of the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 1 of the 'Wheel of Fortune' path.As long as he can successfully hunt another mercury snake, he will have the opportunity to be promoted to Sequence 0 and then become the real Old One!

At this point, Ourolius's path will be easier than that of any other being.

Of course, the premise is that He can obtain the Key of Light.

To obtain the Key of Light, the seal set by the 'Lord of Mysteries' must be broken.

Based on this prerequisite, the True Creator naturally has no reason to stop the First Fire.

There is no doubt that all of this was clearly in Adam's calculations.

Adam knew the True Creator well, and the True Creator knew Adam well.

After all, no matter what, they were once the same person.

Just as the true creator was hesitating, the situation in the gray mist became increasingly grim.

The 'grey mist' roasted by the first fire became thinner and thinner, and cracks appeared one after another on the surface.These cracks were just scattered 'scratches' at first, but as time went by, more and more cracks spread all over the surface of the gray fog, as densely packed as a spider web.

The gray fog was like a mirror at this time, overwhelmed and constantly collapsing under the pressure of cracks, as if it would completely collapse at any time.

And under the gray mist, there are also "hills" one after another, just like in a fish tank sealed by plastic, there are small fish eager to breathe trying to break free from the shackles of plastic.

Boo!
Finally, a 'little fish' pierced the 'plastic' seal.

A large hole was opened on the surface of the gray fog, and the sound of rushing water came from it, as if the water of the Milky Way was pouring out.

The True Creator looked intently, and in the hole, a dark, colorless, devoid of reality, with a strong breath of eternal silence, was flowing out of it. It was obviously a long distance away, but the True Creator seemed to Saw death, saw eternal sleep, saw His end, His end...

Although those 'rivers' sloped down, they did not fall to the ground. Instead, they suddenly disappeared in the air and flowed deep into the spiritual world.

That is not a real river, but the River of Eternal Darkness, one of the nine sources of matter.

The river is not a river in the real sense, but an abstract concept and symbol.

The True Creator's escape from the 'River of Eternal Darkness' is not surprising, because although the 'Lord of Mysteries' is powerful, he is not the Creator after all.

As time goes by, the seal of the Western Continent is gradually weakening.

Those essences or instincts or consciously make use of the uniqueness and high-sequence extraordinary characteristics within their own symbolic scope, indirectly eroding them and affecting the outside world.Among them, the first one to seep out power is the 'River of Eternal Darkness', which formed a tributary in the outside world through Gray Carrie as early as the Second Age.

In the Fourth Age, more sources of sefirot began to appear in the North and South Continents and the Five Seas Islands, such as the City of Disaster and the World of Shadows...

Of course, the level of these source materials is too high, and they are far from being able to be activated like the 'Hidden Sage'.Their instincts are more due to the tendency to 'aggregate' rather than the birth of their own self-awareness.

But now, once it escapes with the help of external forces, the source material will go to the area where the power once penetrated due to 'aggregation', and merge with its branches.

The River of Eternal Darkness is the first, followed by the 'Brother's Nest', 'Wildness of Knowledge'...

The True Creator watched all this quietly, because He knew that this was just the beginning, and it was already too late to stop it now.

He watched quietly as one source after another broke through the shackles of the gray mist and gained freedom.

He neither tried to stop nor rob them - the status of these sefirot was higher than his, and unless he forcibly used the power of the Chaos Sea, it would be impossible to stop these sefirot.The cost of using the Sea of ​​Chaos to intercept the source matter is that the source matter is likely to be swallowed by the Sea of ​​Chaos. The True Creator does not want to bear such a price, so He does not plan to do anything.

At the same time, although the gray mist was instinctively filling the gap and preventing these source materials from escaping, it was of no help after all.

Because by the time those gaps are filled, the source material has already escaped from birth, like a bird flying into the blue sky and a fish falling into the sea, no longer bound by fetters.

Eventually, the gray fog barrier returned to its original state.

It's just that it's not as thick as before, but much thinner.

The True Creator is far away, and even in some areas, he can vaguely see the scene on the other side through the gray fog - on the other side, a large number of people are standing at the border of the gray fog, looking either worriedly or excitedly Looking at the dead world on the other side of the gray fog.

Above the sky, the 'First Fire' has disappeared, but the sky is still bright, and the 'sun' is also hanging high in the sky.

Because when the 'first fire' ignited the gray mist, the 'darkness' and 'lightning' that shrouded the world were also ignited.

By the time the gray mist became extremely thin during the continuous burning, the 'darkness' and 'lightning' had already been burned to ashes, and the bright sunshine was shining on this land that had been shrouded in darkness for thousands of years.Maybe in a few years, the land abandoned by the gods will turn back into the 'Eastern Continent'!
It was a pleasant surprise.