Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 123:122 Pollution from the Future
'Let me give you a simple example.'

In the world of nothingness, a huge, brown-red object, like a rusted celestial body, floated beneath the starry sky. Chants like air raid sirens echoed throughout the void. It was like tangible spiritual pollution, destroying the minds of all who heard it, leaving them dominated by their instincts and the madness within their Beyonder characteristics.

This is Ghroth, the "Star of Judgment" and the "Harbinger of Destruction", one of the Outer Gods recorded in the Book of the Dead.

Beneath this gigantic celestial body, standing on a small island was Amon, who had been dismantled into countless symbols of mystical knowledge and could only barely piece together his thoughts.

The mystical symbols belonging to Sequence 1 of the Thief's Path have been hidden in almost every way. Sequence 1 is facing Sequence 0, who has been well prepared and laid layers of traps. Amon now has no ability to resist and can only passively accept this strange situation.

"As you can see, the God of War Badheir became a marionette at some point in the future."

A gentle voice rang in Amon's mind, but every word of His was like an infusion of crazy knowledge to Amon.

As for Amon in his current state, He has only one option: to accept this.

Mad knowledge is like the whisper of an ancient god: 'This is a 'future' that has already been determined.'

"Whether it's a prophet, a master of prediction, or a diviner, the essence of divination and prophecy is to obtain inspiration from the spiritual world where the past, present, and future are intertwined. This is a vague concept, and vagueness itself is a kind of protection for the diviner."

"For those living in the present, the future is uncertain and unobservable. It's like a fortune teller planning to go out. He predicts that it will rain lightly in his city in half an hour, so he takes out his umbrella."

'If a fortune teller hasn't done any divination, he won't take out an umbrella. But after doing divination, he will take out an umbrella according to the divination's revelation.'

"Gaining inspiration from the spirit world, using it to change one's behavior and prevent certain dangers from occurring, is one of the essences of divination and prophecy."

"But what if you knew that you would have to bring an umbrella today?"

The gentle voice was persuasive. As the King of Angels of the Thieves' Path, Amon was definitely not a fool. He vaguely understood what the mysterious servant meant by the 'future'.

"Of course I'll take the umbrella, no matter what the reason is." Amon sighed silently.

"You're very smart. Well, sometimes I also like smart people. Compared to Beyonders whose brains are empty and unable to store knowledge, those with quick minds can save me a lot of effort."

In short, for people today, 'the God of War Badheir becoming a secret doll' is a secret locked in a box called 'the future'. Once discovered, that person will inevitably start to associate it with it.

'Can this be avoided?', 'What caused this to happen?', 'Can things change in the future?'...

Thinking attracts attention and thus pollutes.

This is not a revelation, it is something that is bound to happen in the future and cannot be changed no matter what you do.

Through this, more "future" is speculated.

"Badhair, the God of War, has died and become a secret marionette" has become a reality. What can the Church of the God of War do? What will Badhair, the God of War, do? What exactly caused Badhair's death?

But the "future" is an irresistible trend. As time goes by, the reality becomes stronger and stronger. The more you want to escape from this future, the deeper you will sink into the quagmire of the "future". It is useless to struggle free, and the quagmire will only get deeper and deeper. Finally, you will drown in despair in the reality brought by the "future".

And the more you think, the more polluted you become.

"No matter what you do, you can't change the future. Today you will definitely bring an umbrella. Then you will not think about it and numbly take the umbrella and go out."

"You know what you're going to eat for lunch today, so you'll only go to that restaurant. Even if someone invites you to eat somewhere else, you'll refuse because this is part of the 'future' that will inevitably unfold."

"You will act in the way the future unfolds, losing consciousness and erasing yourself... Of course, this won't cause a loss of control. This is the clever point of this pollution called 'future'. It can make those who are polluted become puppets of fate without realizing it, until they face the real, inevitable 'future'."

'Compared to the current of the times, this kind of pollution is fundamentally different from the visionaries and the audience.'

Visionaries influence people's spirits, subtly manipulating the world through the ocean of the subconscious, guiding the course of the times. However, the pollution known as "the future" forces the world to follow a predetermined template, forcing all things to move towards a predetermined, real "future" and become puppets of fate.

"Your Sequence 1 clone remaining in Intis should already know that your original body is dead. You're quite clever. Well, this is the third time I've said that about you... So, do you understand?"

What He hid in the thief's path uniqueness and the sequence 1 potion.

After Amon ate the Sequence 1 Time Worm, the ancestor of Jacob's family, "He" did not gather together to gain more powerful strength, but acted separately.

He is not truly dead, as a portion of the Sequence 1 potion is still in him.

This was the backup plan He had laid, but unfortunately, it was activated and His failure became a reality.

After losing the extraordinary characteristics of a Sequence 1 and the uniqueness of this path, the danger of the Angel King of the Thief Path will be greatly reduced, and the high-sequence extraordinary people of the Gou Sanjia Path will be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Is this why you didn't erase my consciousness?" Amon asked.

"After all, Sequence 1 is a bit troublesome, and I can't be here forever, so I naturally need to be on guard. This is a common sense thing, isn't it?"

The connection between Amon and Amon, and the connection between Amon and uniqueness are very deep. Even if Tang, who is only a Sequence 1, obtains a Sequence 4 potion and the uniqueness of the thief's path, he may not be able to keep it.

This isn't just Amon; Extraordinary people from other paths and other sequences can also covet these things.

Therefore, He hid Amon's memories, a small part of his consciousness, disassembled and pieced together his crazy knowledge, integrated it into the mental pollution of the 'future', and placed it into these two sufficiently important things.

"Look, your thinking has become strange."

In front of Amon, there appeared a lot of vague mystical symbols. Those symbols flickered, but were extremely obedient, without any signs of struggle or differentiation.

A small part of it gives people a twisted and weird feeling that makes them afraid to approach.

'The unknown Servant of Mysteries', 'The unknown Pale Emperor', 'The unknown Conqueror's Marionette', 'The Birth of the Lord of Mysteries', 'The Death of Badhair, the God of War'... a series of thoughts and cognitions, which have evolved into crazy knowledge, also contain a layer of spiritual pollution that is difficult to detect and easily ignored.

If another Amon, or another true god, Sequence 1, attempts to take back the uniqueness and the Sequence 1 potion, then he and they will simultaneously gain this knowledge.

Then, you become a puppet of 'fate' and 'future', a puppet that propels the present towards the real 'future'.

The breeze gradually condensed into a solid entity, and countless crazy knowledge gathered together. A young man who looked young enough stood in front of Amon, "So, do you understand?"

"Send the message to your clone. Don't come to Loen, don't come to Tingen. Otherwise, knowledge will chase you forever."

——During the few seconds of confrontation with Pales, a misty luster appeared on the monocle that Don wore in his right eye socket.

'Solved.'

The next second, the misty luster disappeared, and the last gray fog in the sky also entered the spiritual world at this moment, returning to the mysterious world above the seven pure lights.

All things in the 'future' appeared under the cover of the gray fog and disappeared after the gray fog left.

Except for the body behind which was almost invisible in its original form, everything was in a mess, the corpse of a monster that had been severely polluted and turned into a monster.

There is pollution everywhere, and traces of battles between high-sequence extraordinary beings are everywhere. This is a battle almost at the top of the sequence. The only thing more brutal than this is probably the desperate battle between gods.

In front of Pales, Tang Ze pinched the monocle that he had just put on and surprisingly fit him.

This familiar action changed the old man's expression again.

The corners of his mouth twitched a few times and he fell silent again.

He felt that he had been silent for more time today than he had ever been silent in his entire life.

After watching silently for a few seconds, the Sequence 1 Time Worm did not flee immediately. Instead, he cautiously looked at Tang, who was walking towards him. He was wearing a monocle that looked very familiar to him, almost like PTSD, and asked, "Is it solved?"

To be honest, if in the past, a Sequence 4 Trickster had defeated Sequence 1 Amon, and even gained his uniqueness and Beyonder characteristics?
Haha, how is it possible? It's too ridiculous, even funnier than when he heard that Medici had his hair burned by Amon.

But... the great being above the spiritual world...

Pales glanced at the battlefield behind Tang again. He understood at a glance that there was no way a Sequence 4 could create that kind of noise, and the gray-white mist that had suddenly descended...

Is it that person? Is he the favored one of that person? Are there other favored ones who come to help?

"I think I played the role very similarly this time. Why do you think I'm not Amon?"

Tang suddenly spoke, interrupting the facial nerve abnormalities caused by Pales' deep association and contemplation.

Pales remembered what he had said to Baron Ramde's second son in the castle and fell silent again.

After a few seconds, he replied faintly, "Feeling."

Amon was not so honest. If the person in front of him had been replaced by Amon, then the first thing he would do when he saw him would not be to take the monocle, but to directly prepare to replace his fate - unless Amon was playing a very new trick.

Of course, what Pales left here was not his real body. If necessary, he could abandon this part of his clone and escape from here.

However, when he saw the gray fog, Pales had a very strong intuition, and this strong intuition made him risk the considerable risk of being caught by Amon and leave a clone behind.

Tang smiled and said, "Well, your feeling is very accurate."

"Let's talk somewhere else... well, before that." He looked towards the sky, and so did Pales.

There, high in the sky, a figure wearing a hood, a dark robe, with a dull gaze, a pretty face, and a feminine beauty, stood there for an unknown amount of time.

That was 0-17, the Hidden Angel, Antigonus' sister, the Hidden Servant of Sequence 2, and the vessel for the advent of the Goddess of Night.

The Goddess of Night has always been paying attention to Source Castle in the spirit world. Today, the gray fog was so noisy, and the appearance of the authority of the Lord of Mysteries made this god, who was originally a remnant of the old times, aware of something unusual. It is understandable that the god has descended.

The pretty figure did not move. Tang Ze, who was wearing a monocle, took a step forward. Time and space were grafted and he appeared in the sky.

The Hidden Angel glanced at Pales Zoroast who was standing on the sea, and the next moment she and the area where Tang was located formed a secret area. No one could hear what they communicated or whether they had fought.

Pales seemed calm and had remained composed since the gray fog descended, but this was a character shaped by millennia, and it didn't mean he wasn't surprised at all.

…Well, he was dying of curiosity.

How did Amon disappear?

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At this time, the Intis Empire.

A young man who was out suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky.

The monocle in his right eye socket began to crack. The cracks spread like a spider web, and soon the monocle shattered and fell, vanishing into a fading light.

He squinted his eyes slightly, as if he was not quite used to the world he saw after the monocle disappeared.

He sighed, "It failed. Even the main body was folded inside."

"And the last information passed on was, don't get close to Tingen?"

Loen, Tingen, where Pales Zoroast and a demigod who stole the path are hiding...

Well, other than that, everything was gone. His memory was completely lost, and his Beyonder characteristics and uniqueness did not return to him through the connection with mysticism. Did a Sequence 0 True God intervene?

"Who did Pales find as helper? Dark Night? Or the others?"

The young man slowly took out a new monocle from his pocket and put it back on his right eye socket.

However, this monocle no longer had the crystal-clear luster, but had become much dimmer, and could no longer provide a powerful bonus of extraordinary power.

"No, we should change the style."

He, no, He took off the monocle from his right eye socket, wiped it, and then put it on the left eye socket.

"Lune, Tingen..." Amon's lips curled slightly, "That makes me want to go and see it even more."

(End of this chapter)