Mystery: The New Dark Emperor Arrives

Chapter 654: Human bones found in the decaying forest

The members of the Tarot Club did not expect that although the Backlund bombing was over, this international metropolis would become increasingly turbulent.

Not only did a Sequence 1 angel from the "divineer" path come, this angel was also very likely to attract Amon's clone.

"Star" Leonard asked: "Why did the archangel of the 'divineer' pathway appear in Backlund?"

Klein manipulated the "world" and replied: "It seems to be related to the plan of the goddess of the night."

Leonard was even more confused: "What is the goddess's plan?"

The other members were also stunned, and they were also curious about what the goddess of the night had planned?

Audrey, the "just" one among them, suddenly realized: Unknowingly, our conversations about gods and gods' plans have become so ordinary.

"The Hanged Man" Alger realized the difference in this matter: We have also exchanged information about gods before, but that information basically happened in the last era, or several eras ago, and this time What was mentioned was the ongoing plan of the gods.

"I don't know the specifics." "The World" said: "But according to my observation, the goddess of the night seems to want to cause chaos in Backlund."

Based on several previous prayers, Klein keenly discovered that the goddess seemed to be unable to descend from the gods recently.

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

Hobert responded to Alger: "This is normal. After all, it is impossible for 'Sailor' to support 'Audience''s plan to become a god."

Now that the topic has reached this point, he will share with everyone the conversation he had with "Vice Admiral Iceberg" at that time: "I have heard of such a thing. A long time ago, some extraordinary creatures tried to collect an element. Extraordinary characteristics.

"Magician" Forsi suddenly realized that through the previous transaction with Hobert, they almost knew most of the 22 pathways, most of which were adjacent:

“In the random devouring of extraordinary creatures, these extraordinary elements blended with each other to form the original extraordinary characteristics.

"This allows the extraordinary characteristics that were originally very cold and unsuitable for living creatures to take, gradually resonate with the living creatures, and have the opportunity to integrate with each other."

Klein was somewhat surprised: Not too positive? This is not in line with the image of the Church of Storms. Although their teachings neither advocate fighting nor promote war, they absolutely emphasize treating the enemy with storm-like ferocity and venting any anger on the spot.

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

At this time, almost all the other members understood what Ms. Hermit meant. They all have adjacent paths. Suddenly there is such a path without adjacent paths. This is strange in itself.

"For example, as the 'Emperor' said, the frost abilities of the witch and 'prisoner' channels, the extraordinary characteristics at that time did not seem to be as stable as they are now. It is more accurate to call them extraordinary elements.

Letting these two guys come will indeed cause a certain degree of chaos in Bechlade's extraordinary world, but it is also very likely that they will discover that the goddess of the night has been unable to descend in recent times, right?

During the Tarot meeting, Hobert, who had read the "script", was very clear: the goddess now wants to let the whole world know that she cannot descend from the gods! As for the reason why God cannot descend, of course it is "trying to accommodate the uniqueness of the path of death"! It doesn't matter whether others believe it or not, as long as you give the God of War a sufficient sense of urgency.

"It wasn't until the 'blasphemous tablets' appeared that these combinations were completely formulaic, and that's how they got their current extraordinary properties?"

This suddenly reminded Klein of a theory mentioned by "Vice Admiral Iceberg" Edwina in "Grossell's Travels".

"Apprentice", "Soothsayer" and "Stealer" are adjacent paths; "Spectator", "Sailor", "Reader", "Songer" and "Secretist" are adjacent paths.

Everyone has their own guesses about what "the world" said, but they all feel that they don't make sense.

Cattleya thought: Theoretically speaking, extraordinary characteristics should have an initial state, and the abilities at that time should be relatively simple. For example, the "Peeper" path will only perform "mysterious reappearance", and the "Apprentice" will only perform "mysterious reappearance" in the spiritual world. Traveling across borders. Under some circumstances of chance and coincidence, extraordinary creatures discovered that extraordinary elements with twisted characteristics could be checked and balanced to a certain extent, so they gradually developed the extraordinary characteristics they have now.

"This is exactly what I want to say." Hobert said: "This should also involve an issue of the Extraordinary Characteristics becoming more and more 'temperature'. The owner of each Extraordinary Characteristics should leave a mark on the characteristics. A trace of spirit remains.

Hobert smiled and said: "Have you ever thought about a problem? There are many non-adjacent pathways, but they also have some similar abilities.

Then he added: "Even if I am in Backlund, that is God's plan. How can Extraordinaries like us understand it?

As for the goddess's plan, Klein's guess is that the arrival of Zaratul and Amon's clones may be because the goddess of the night is afraid that her inability to descend from the gods will be known to the enemies, so she makes Backlund confused, so that the enemies of the goddess can Some of Backlund's actions will be restricted.

As for why the gods could not descend, he guessed that it might be to accommodate the uniqueness of the "God of Death" path, but he was not sure about his guess, but he just felt that this idea was more reasonable.

What Klein couldn't figure out was that the goddess seemed to have prevented Zaratul from being promoted to Sequence 1 before, and the Church of the Night Goddess was not very friendly towards Amon's clone.

Everyone first felt a strong sense of history, and then felt that the idea of ​​"the world" made sense.

Everyone smiled helplessly. Of course they understood what the "Emperor" meant: This is the plan of the gods. As an ordinary extraordinary person, should he still participate in the plan of the gods?

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

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

"I suggest you wait for this kind of thing. When the goddess's plan finally comes to fruition, we will naturally guess the goddess's plan through some performances of the Church of the Night Goddess."

So they habitually looked at the "Emperor" together, and Hobert smiled and said: "Recently, our focus is on the Southern Continent, and we don't know much about Backlund's situation."

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

But as the second most powerful country in the northern continent, the Republic of Intis has yet to express its stance. This is very strange!

"Hermit" Cattleya also understood the meaning of "Emperor" based on the corresponding occult knowledge. She did not discuss the current situation in the Northern Continent, but talked about a question in her heart: "According to what I learned Some intelligence, almost all pathways have adjacent pathways.

He said: "But it will be hard to say in the future. From the current point of view, either the Fusac Empire will be defeated quickly, or George III will give up on becoming a god, otherwise the war may continue for a while.

"In short, those extraordinary creatures tried their best to collect extraordinary elements of the frost type. Their abilities did not become stronger, but they became more likely to lose control."

Forsi hadn't noticed before that there was indeed only one path left among the 22 paths, and it was the "monster" path that they had rarely mentioned before. It seemed that it was only when trading information about the King of Angels Ouroleus. I briefly talked about this approach.

But then he thought: the "sailor" pathway and the "spectator" pathway are adjacent pathways that can be interchanged at a high level, and there is a huge contradiction between them. Even if the "Storm Lord" acquiesces to George III becoming the "Black Emperor", it is unlikely that he will sit back and watch Adam ascend to the throne of God through the "torrent of time". Therefore, the Church of Storms is unwilling to expand the war into one that sweeps the entire world.

There are also "Warrior", "Sleepless One" and "Corpse Collector" who are adjacent paths, and the rest are two adjacent paths, "Lawyer" and "Arbitrator", "Medicine" and "Cultivator" , "Hunter" and "Witch", "Prisoner" and "Criminal", "Intelligence" and "Secret Peeper".

Klein guessed: “This reminds me of the idea that our current Extraordinary characteristics were purely Extraordinary elements from the beginning.

"For example, the witch's frost attack is very similar to the 'prisoner' pathway's frost attack. Another example is the 'lawyer's' charm, which is also very similar to the witch's charm. There are also the 'hunter's' fireball and the 'criminal' pathway's fireball. There are many examples of this.”

Other members have similar thoughts, and they all feel that the process of forming extraordinary characteristics is a process of resisting the distortion of extraordinary abilities.

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

“In the Second Age, through the ancient gods’ repeated crushing and reorganization, the extraordinary elements took on a state that could be more stable after being swallowed by living creatures.

At the same time, this is also the worry of Earl Hall. Logically speaking, it is normal that the Kingdom of Feneport has not expressed its position for a long time. After all, it is the weakest among the four countries in the northern continent. This was also the case in several previous large-scale wars. It will not If you declare war easily, you will not take sides easily.

At the same time, he thought: I think so too. Just because it is an adjacent channel to the "audience", the church does not want to see itself helping Adam realize his plan.

Other members realized that the opportunity mentioned by the "Emperor" might be the "acting method".

Hobert continued: “I don’t know if you still remember the issue of divinity we talked about before.

"It seems to me that divinity is akin to 'cosmic consciousness', some cold abstraction to living things.

“The extraordinary characteristics derived from these products are of course twisted and cold to living creatures.

"But in my opinion, after the remaining 'gentleness' of the spirit of generations, these extraordinary characteristics should be much 'softer' than they were at the beginning."

He paused and then said: "Even if there was a process of fusion of extraordinary elements a long time ago, the main authority of a path, that is, the uniqueness, will not change.

“So for living things, extraordinary is still twisted and difficult to tame.

"After knowing the above speculations, let's look at the 'monster' pathway again. Maybe it's not that it has no adjacent pathways, but that its adjacent pathways are dispersed into other pathways?"

Hobert smiled and said: "This is my conjecture. There is no evidence at the moment, but as far as I know, after the 'Sleepless Man' becomes a demigod, he has the ability of 'bad luck'. This ability is to temporarily change the fate of the target. The target was very unlucky.

"Also, as we said before, Amon has the ability to steal destiny. It is difficult to say clearly whether he can steal the target's destiny without the relevant authority similar to the destiny path?"

There was silence in the hall for a few seconds, everyone was digesting what the "Emperor" said.

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

"Or because there are no extraordinary people in that path, the uniqueness of that path has returned to the state of 'cosmic consciousness'?"

The other members first felt that the speculation of "The Hanged Man" was reasonable, and then they realized one by one that what they were currently discussing was the core part of the extraordinary world. Moreover, there seems to be not much information to refer to for such a discussion, and it is difficult to verify!

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

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

Hobert added: "There is another possibility, that is, the adjacent path to the destiny path is not in the real world!"

Everyone was stunned again. At this time of the discussion, most members could no longer keep up with Hobert's thinking. They 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.

After hearing Hobert's new point of view, Cattleya asked: "If it's not in the real world, is it in the spiritual world?"

"Maybe it's in the spirit world." At present, Hobert didn't plan to talk about the first thing that tore apart the extraordinary characteristics of the outer gods, so he didn't give 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 starry sky."

Cattleya instantly thought of the Outer God, but due to the lack of key information, some of her guesses stopped there.

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

Everyone nodded slowly. Because there were not enough clues, the discussion could not continue.

However, the discussion just now is enough for everyone to think about it. At least it basically explains the characteristics of "extraordinary characteristics".

After taking more than ten seconds to digest the content of the discussion, the members of the Tarot Club all looked at Derrick "The Sun".

During last week's Tarot meeting, Derrick's exploration team had already arrived at the afternoon town camp, and planned to explore the "Court of the Giants" after a day's rest. By this time, their exploration should have ended.

Derrick sat upright and said very consciously: "We have completed the first exploration of the 'Giant King's Court'. Three people died, one is missing, and five are alive.

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

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

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

"Moon" Emlyn, Audrey and other members all expressed the same sentiment in their hearts: It is indeed the 'Tour of Giants', the kingdom of the ancient gods, but two Sequence 3 demigods are actually guarding the main entrance. "

Only Hobert said in his heart: What a waste.

This made him think that among the military Extraordinaries he had trained, many Extraordinaries of the "Warrior" path had been promoted to Sequence 7. Should he look for an opportunity to obtain the extraordinary characteristics of these two "Silver Knights"?

At this time, Derrick continued: "According to a hidden passage provided by Mr. World, we went around to the back of the 'Giant King's Court' and encountered many monsters dominated by resentful spirits..."

Klein, who watched the "live broadcast" with "Real Vision" at the time, lamented: Little Sun is really not a storytelling material.

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

"After arriving at the 'Decashed Forest', we tried to explore." Derrick said: "Soon we discovered that the remaining will of the Giant King combined with the power of the Kingdom of God to form an evil spirit.

"It is guarding the tombs of its parents..."

This reminded both Audrey and Leonard of their previous exploration of "Grossell's Travels" with "The World". According to the giant guard, the giant king did not even let his queen and children get close to "decline" forest".

When Derrick said this, he paused for a moment and unconsciously recalled the scene he saw at that time before continuing: "After purifying the evil spirit, we came to the tomb of the Giant King's parents.

"There is a stone tablet standing there, indicating the identity of the owner of the tomb, and the tomb and coffin have been opened, and there... there are two human corpses in there!"

Upon hearing this, Cattleya's first reaction was that the two corpses had other identities: godfather and godmother? No, how could there be any religion at that time?

Then, she recalled some of the questions that the queen had come up with, inspired by Emperor Russell's life: Why are giants, elves, and vampires called humanoids or humanoids even in ancient documents and historical materials?

Why aren't humans called giant-like, elf-like, vampire-like creatures?

Cattleya then thought about the "Emperor's" previous explanation of the "humanoid camp" in the Second Age. She remembered that there was a key point that the "Emperor" did not explain at that time, and only said that he would explain it after having evidence.

She suspected that the "Emperor" had already made certain assumptions about this at that time?

Alger immediately suspected that someone had faked the scene, but then he realized that it was not just as simple as taking away the real skeletons and replacing them with human ones.

A suitable coffin must also be prepared to make the tomb size look like it does not belong to a giant. The key is that this kind of forgery has no practical significance and will not have much impact on reality.

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

Finally, he touched his hair and thought of his father, who was a mixture 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 filled with thoughts of "impossible" and "this is impossible": If the ancestor of the giants was human, what about the vampires? Are we just monsters created by the mutation of extraordinary characteristics?

Emlyn once again denied it in his heart: Impossible! We were clearly created by our ancestor, who has the authority of "life" and "creation". He is completely different from 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 motive to lie on this matter.

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

Cattleya: Sure enough.

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

Hobert said seriously: "Do you still remember the 'humanoid camp' and 'non-human creature camp' we mentioned when we talked about the camps of the ancient gods in the Second Age?

"At that time, I raised questions about the names of the two camps and made two conjectures. The first conjecture is that all the information about the Second Age that is currently preserved was written by humans, so it is based on human beings. perspective to differentiate between camps.”

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

Because that conjecture is really shocking without any evidence!

Hobert continued: "My second guess is that the Giant King, the Elf King and the ancestor of the blood race all clearly know that the tribe they belong to is derived from humans.

"So they all recognize the name 'humanoid camp'."

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

Hobert was no longer as serious as before: "We just discussed this issue."

Emlyn's face turned pale: "Because of the extraordinary characteristics?"

"Yes, Extraordinary characteristics." Hobert said: "Extraordinary characteristics are not friendly to any creature. Its appearance has caused some humans to undergo violent mutations in a short period of time."

He followed and explained: "This can also explain why the giant kings do not accept the 'Demon King' Fabuti to join their camp, because in their view, demons are not creatures derived from humans."

Cattleya sighed: Many questions make sense.

Klein thought of another question. He manipulated the "world" and asked: "In other words, humans came first and then extraordinary characteristics appeared? And the extraordinary characteristics seemed to appear suddenly?"

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

He said to himself: There should be relevant clues in the stack of diaries you just put away.

This topic made all the members sigh in their hearts for more than ten seconds. Derrick calmed down before continuing: "After leaving the 'Decadent Forest', we entered the interior of the 'Giant King's Court' through the 'Desolate Tunnel' .

"There are 'corrupted' and 'hidden' powers remaining on the way, and you must make the right response to pass.

"The mural in the palace contained the power of the 'circle of destiny', and we were influenced by it and transformed into partygoers, repeating the process."

He solemnly said: "That was the process of establishing 'Redemption Rose'!"

(End of this chapter)