Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 127 Chapter 126 The Terror of Uniqueness

This seal is really flexible.

If Amon's spirit was not still there, Tang seriously suspected that the remaining part of Amon's spirit had been recombined with some crazy knowledge and turned into this horrible appearance.

"Why do you think you didn't experience any negative effects when you wore this thing?" Amon asked with a chuckle.

After hearing what Amon said, Tang recalled yesterday's appraisal results. This unique seal had the same terrible negative impact.

Wearing this item, which originally belonged to Amon, would cause the wearer to gradually lose everything they had: their life, their Beyonder traits, their social relationships, their thoughts. In the end, the monocle would completely steal the very concept of existence, and the wearer would become a wandering ghost, the kind that could never be reborn.

The monocle will then search for its next owner through mystical connections.

To be honest, Tang was quite surprised that he turned into Amon after wearing it for a long time.

As for its sealing method, according to the identification results given by the system, the best method is to obtain the recognition of the remaining spiritual will of the sealed object itself.

However, this recognition is equivalent to the wearer replacing the identity of "Amon", and the ups and downs of fate will be noticed by Amon's clones.

Living Sealed Objects can all use certain special methods to reduce their impact, even if they are unique, the Sealed Objects transformed by the Beyonder characteristics of Sequence 1 are the same, such as the Probability Dice of the Destiny Path.

"Although it's a living Sealed Artifact, the previous owner of the monocle had it stripped down to its Beyonder characteristics and uniqueness. Combined with the unknown methods of my future self and a bit of the crazy knowledge of the Knowledge Wilds, the chances of this thing harming me are very low."

But it’s not impossible. Tang decided to come to the Euclid space to do divination before using this thing in the future.

Well, just survive, it’s better than capsizing in the gutter.

As for Amon's clone noticing the ups and downs of fate, it would be even more interesting if he came.

After thinking about this, Tang blocked the "screaming chicken" system in his mind, turned his gaze, and looked at the entire Tingen again.

In the underground of the Church of Darkness in Tingen, Archbishop Chanis, whom I had met once before, was there.

He seemed to be checking the sealed object stored there, his expression focused, and the divinity and spirituality on his body were intertwined, proving that he was a powerful being of a very high sequence level.

Tang turned his gaze away from the saint of the Church of Darkness and did not use the authority of Euclidean space and monocle to take out all the other party's information.

His eyes shifted elsewhere.

Tang was looking for someone to steal the pocket watch made with the Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics.

"Uniqueness comes with its own decryption, and the pocket watch's stealing ability follows the principle of 'the more you know, the higher the probability of theft.' No wonder both Amon and the old man were Sequence 1 before, but the old man simply ran away when he encountered Amon, not wanting a head-on confrontation at all."

"Of course, this isn't just because of Amon's uniqueness in this path, which greatly increases the extraordinary power of the Thief's Path. Adam's presence should also be part of the reason. It's difficult for Grandpa to compete with the two Angel Kings alone."

The uniqueness of the Thief's Path is absolutely abnormal and terrifying in terms of the added value to Sequence 1 Beyonders of this Path.

For example, now.

Without using the authority of Euclidean space, when Tang saw the ordinary people in Tingen City, he heard and saw what they said, thought, heard, and remembered, and could quickly decipher it at any time.

Just seeing it is equivalent to a level of understanding, but the higher the level, the longer it takes to decipher and the more energy it consumes.

If you try to decipher the secrets of the gods, you'll probably end up like the mythical creatures that face the gods, so you have to be careful.

"And the more you know about the theft, the higher the possibility. With the help of uniqueness, even if Amon doesn't know the specific situation of the target beforehand, uniqueness can help him quickly find a breakthrough."

Mistakes are horrible.

Taking out the pocket watch, Tang flicked a gold coin. Without looking at the front and back of the coin after it fell, he looked towards the western part of Tingen, beside the Tussock River without blinking.

There are Beyonders in Tingen City, but the vast majority are only at Sequence 9 or Sequence 8. A large portion of them entered the Beyonder world by chance. After all, this is not the era in which Klein Moretti lived. The Church is unprecedentedly powerful. In the current era where the Nighthawk system has not yet been fully established and the official Beyonders are understaffed, wild Beyonders are not uncommon, and they do not need to hide like in later generations.

Naturally, there are good and bad Beyonders among the wild.

For example, the Hanged Man Path of the True Creator and the Abyss Path of the Devil, in both cases, you kill as many as you can and kill as many as you can.

After all, they are either already madmen or potential madmen who are hiding very deeply. This is the case for the mid- and high-sequence extraordinary people in both paths.

An example of this is the middle-aged man Tang saw through Euclidean space.

He is Sequence 8 of the Hanged Man Path, the Whisperer, and later generations also called this sequence the Listener.

He seemed to be listening to something, squatting by the Tussock River and muttering to himself.

"A believer in the true Creator?"

Cultists and the like, Tang had dealt with many crazy people of this type before.

After all, when he went to look for mermaids before, Tang had seen things crazier than this in the sea.

Tang saw through the other party's thoughts through the monocle. As a believer in the true creator, the other party's thoughts were radical, terrifying, and twisted. If his sequence was not low and his status was not strong enough, just based on the current influence of the church in Tingen, such a person could cause large-scale casualties in a city.

He opened his pocket watch, and the figure of Amon in his monocle was layered and illusory, appearing strange and unpredictable.

'Go ahead.'

Tang said nothing and gently turned the balance wheel of his pocket watch.

Next to the Tussock River.

The middle-aged man squatted on the ground and kept muttering in an unknown language with a pious tone and a respectful expression, but the next moment he raised his head as if he had realized something, revealing a face full of vicissitudes of life.

"I……"

Seems to have realized something was wrong.

He looked blankly at his hands, which were also covered with dense, undulating wrinkles like bean curd skin. The whisperer's eyes widened, but he was inexplicably excited, with a tingling excitement: "Lord, the Lord is looking at me, Lord—"

He opened his hands, but Tang's mouth twitched as he stole all of the other person's lifespan.

This Whisperer was obviously a fanatical believer of the True Creator, and Tang was unwilling to have such a polluted guy as his secret puppet.

"So among the people I hate the most, the most devout cultists are one of them."

Such people have already lost themselves. Of course, as for the fanatical followers of the righteous gods... forget it, it is better to say less words that defame the gods.

Amon sneered at this.

"Isn't this true of all gods and all Sequence 0 fanatics? It's just that the True Creator has a greater influence on this path."

Tang: A smile is the best expression.

After draining away its life force, one of the twelve hands embedded in the chaotically arranged dark golden dial, a single, radiant hand, stopped spinning. Within this frozen hand, stored was the Beyonder's ability stolen from him.

Tang Yichong determined the uniqueness of this seal through his spiritual intuition and divination.

He stole the other person's life at once, as well as extraordinary abilities including the two sequences of Secret Prayer and Listener, as well as the twisted rituals and magical knowledge heard from unknown beings, and more than ten other things.

This is equivalent to draining all of the opponent's extraordinary abilities at once. Even if the opponent's lifespan is not taken away, if the opponent does not advance, even if he is an extraordinary person, he will no longer be able to display any extraordinary abilities.

"Previously, the minimum number of steals per attack was four, and the maximum was ten. Furthermore, the designated targets could not exceed three at a time. With the addition of uniqueness assistance, the minimum number of steals per attack has increased to eight, and the maximum to fifteen. Furthermore, the number of designated targets has increased from three to six."

"Also, the restriction of only being able to steal from the same target three times within a short period of time has been lifted. Hiss, the minimum number of Beyonder abilities that can be stolen at once is ninety-six, and the maximum is one hundred and twenty..."

If the angels did not have a certain resistance to stealing this "0" level seal, Tang doubted that the sequence 2 angels who stole it would be difficult to leave anything behind.

No wonder, Amon has been feared by even true gods since his birth.

This is an existence that has the real possibility of stealing authority from the true God.

Sequence 1, so terrifying.

"This makes me want to try to advance to the Time Worm..." Tang muttered in his heart.

After all, this was a complete path, encompassing Beyonder traits from Sequence 1 to Sequence 9. As long as he obtained the ritual and auxiliary materials from the old man, or spent some knowledge fragments to allow the system to parse the corresponding potion formula, he wouldn't need to worry about acquiring Beyonder traits.

Tang exhaled, descended from the Euclidean space, and appeared beside the Tussock River. He picked up the extraordinary characteristics condensed from the dry bones on the ground and threw them into the system warehouse for isolation.

All the extraordinary abilities contained in this extraordinary item have been stolen. If he doesn't return it, even if this item is made into a magical item, it will only make people drool.

With a snap, Tang snapped his fingers, and the flames burned the body that had been drained of time.

After finishing everything and dealing with the scene by using interference divination, Tang looked around again, then returned to the Euclid space again, took off his monocle and pocket watch and threw them into the system warehouse, returning to the never-ending theater.

The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and Tang used the secret doll to go look for the old man again.

"Well, have you thought about it?"

Pales was in the cafeteria, with the elegant temperament unique to aristocrats that had been cultivated over thousands of years, savoring the delicious food in front of him.

"Please tell me the exact location of the ancient scholar of the Secret Order." Tang Ze said.

He was about to start preparing the materials for Sequence 3.

Pales wasn't surprised. After telling Tang the location, he asked, "If you fail, haha, I can help you extract some of the Beyonder characteristics from this sealed artifact."

The students' and professors' secret puppets around him cast resentful glances at him in a condemning manner.

Pales seemed oblivious, and Tang ignored it completely.

The Never-Ending Theatre contained a Sequence 2 and multiple Sequence 3 Beyonder Characteristics. Stealing a portion of them would not affect the stability of the place itself.

"Okay." Tang didn't say that he could do it himself. He asked some other questions and after roughly understanding the situation of the ancient scholar, he disconnected the secret doll again.

'Host, are you going to look for the ancient scholars?'

The system asked curiously.

"Yes, the next step is to prepare the main ingredients for the ancient scholar's potion, as well as the corresponding auxiliary materials."

Tang asked, "How are those kids who were brought in from outside?"

"Follow your instructions, host. Let them first learn Hermetic, Ancient Hermetic, and Loenese at the Language Academy. Once they can understand the meaning of the text, we can make further preparations."

Tang nodded and opened the task template.

'Task information updated.'

'Side Quest: Establish a Secret Organization (Phase 3)'

"Please recruit outstanding students with the above qualities! And provide them with preliminary training in mysticism!"

'Task Progress: 100/100'

'Quest Reward: Surprise Gift Pack*1, Manuscript of the Black Magic Book "Book of the Dead."'

'Task status: Completed.'

'Rewards have been issued.'

'This side quest has entered the fourth stage.'

'Side Quest: Establish a Secret Organization (Phase 4)'

"Your organization already has a sufficient supply of talent... What? You're actually forcing potions into your organization to cultivate talent?! No, no, no, I won't scold you. After all, just like the name you chose, the real Miskatonic University attracts a large number of talented students every year, and then sends some of them to graves or mental hospitals..."

"So, now you have a group of useless 'talents'. The next mission is the most critical part of the entire secret organization!"

"Please expand Miskatonic's influence! Whether it's mysticism, science, theology, or archaeology!"

'Everything will serve the name itself! This university will become synonymous with all knowledge! It will become a miracle where the world's knowledge and thoughts flow and converge!'

'Small suggestions, innovations have an impact~'

'Task reward: depends on influence.'

'Note: Considering that the host is about to be promoted to Sequence 3 Ancient Scholar on the Diviner Path, it is recommended that this quest be performed after the Ancient Scholar Ceremony is completed.'

"After all, influence fades with time, doesn't it?"

After reading it to the end, Tang nodded.

"After all, I originally planned to complete the Sequence 3 ritual and the Sequence 2 ritual together."

A Sequence 3 potion can be obtained from an ancient scholar of the Secret Order, but a Sequence 2 potion...

Don glanced overhead.

Theater Core: ...

What are you looking at me for, you idiot?

(End of this chapter)