Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 160 159 A Sack of Talismans
The ascension ceremony of the undead is to take the potion at the critical point between life and death, when the memory fades to the extreme, but is remembered in an instant. Under the circumstances where these two extreme states collide with each other, creating a huge contrast, the undead takes the potion.

The essence of the ritual is to create contradictions and thereby create a mystical 'memory storage device' that belongs exclusively to the undead.

At the critical point between life and death, the small underworld and spirit created by the gatekeeper will collapse involuntarily. However, with the help of the life-sustaining force that continues to flow into his body, the collapsed underworld and spirit will be transformed by the undead potion and combined with the continuously influx of memories, leaving a spiritual imprint and forming an anchor point for the undead.

This will allow every promoted undead to back up their memories to this mystical anchor point before facing death. After losing their memories and being resurrected again, they will continue to regain the corresponding memory imprints from the imprint and the anchor point.

"It's important to note that ascending to the Undead requires meeting two ritual requirements simultaneously. First, the Gatekeeper must be at the critical point between life and death when taking the potion. This is relatively easy, after all, there are creatures in the spirit world called 'Banshees'. They are bird-like monsters with human faces. Their singing can cause anyone who hears them to age and die involuntarily."

Spiritual creatures like banshees love to feast on living creatures. Even if the body of a person who hears their singing has already involuntarily slid into the abyss of death, he or she can still remain "alive" before the banshee opens its mouth.

However, this state does not last long. After all, the banshees are vigilant enough. They move in groups. After catching food, they will quickly share it and then eat it all up.

"Secondly, before the ritual begins and the potion is taken, the gatekeeper's memory must be rapidly cleared, including thoughts, knowledge, and other ideas."

If one fails to grasp the timing and forgets everything after fulfilling the requirements of the ritual, and cannot even drink the potion, the ritual will directly fail; or if one still has some consciousness left and drinks the potion but does not fulfill the requirements of the ritual, the ritual will also fail.

The reflow of memories also required precise timing. This required the reflow of memories to be completed before the potion began to take effect, the small underworld and spirit body within the body collapsed, and then rapidly repaired, before they were completely restored.

And finally, and most importantly.

The Undead Ascension Ceremony is difficult to complete by one person alone. If the auxiliary staff has even the slightest evil intention, then how can this auxiliary staff gain more than just a Sequence 4 Beyonder characteristic?
It is not difficult for clergy who once belonged to the Church of Death to be promoted to undead. After all, there is the big boss of this path to deal with the corresponding problems. The clergy of the Church of Death are very familiar with a series of promotion processes, and there will not be too many unpredictable situations.

And with the constraints of the Church of Death, it is unlikely that there will be cases where auxiliary personnel turn around and kill the promoted people, then take the potion and walk away.

As for the wild Beyonders who wanted to advance to Sequence 4 of this path, who knows how many of them died at the hands of their own friends and family.

A dummy Owen was made and placed in the room. Anjie stayed where she was. The newly made, fresh marionette was equipped with a 'bionic marionette' module and customized with personality memory and other background settings. Tang then let him infiltrate the Spirit Cult and become a loyal traitor.

"'Grandpa''s' gold coins were exploded, and the uniqueness is now in the depths of the Raging Sea. The three Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics should all be closely connected to the Southern Continent and the current Spiritual Cult. Someone may even have successfully ascended to the Sequence 1 Pale Emperor."

The "0" level seal that Emperor Roselle prepared for his daughter, 'Pale Death', was created after he returned from the Southern Continent using a copy of the Pale Emperor's Beyonder characteristics.

I don’t know if my father has any clues. After all, he is the son of the god of death. After all, these things revealed by his grandfather are also his family’s property, right?
What happened to him asking someone to check his family's property status?
The system cheered: "Ah, right, right."

After completing all preparations, Don and Owen returned to Tingen with the help of the Traveler Marionette and entered the never-ending theater.

Grandpa Pales had been waiting for a while. When he saw Tang and Owen, he narrowed his eyes slightly and asked with a smile, "Is this the Undead's Ascension Ceremony?"

"Correct."

Tang showed the proper attitude towards a Sequence 1 Angel, and at the same time, he took out a monocle from his pocket and handed it to the other party.

The uniqueness of the Thief's Path can naturally only be brought to its fullest potential in the hands of the Extraordinary People of the Thief's Path.

He had signed an agreement with the old man. Judging from the strength of the agreement, the old man would not break it, and naturally would not secretly take away the monocle that belonged to Amon, which was the only way for the thief to steal.

Besides, with the system and his future self’s marks, if the old man wants to take it away, he can track it through Euclidean space and then take it back.

But the shock that the explosion of Amon's gold coins gave to the old man...can't, at least shouldn't.

Don placed the monocle in the old man's hand.

Pales held the crystal-carved monocle that was gleaming with a faint light, and without any change on his face, he gestured for the two to follow him into the empty classroom.

The place had obviously been cleared out in advance, and outside the window was a quiet night.

The sky was dotted with stars, and a crimson moon illuminated the huge complex of buildings.

There are lights outside the window, dispelling the darkness that the crimson moonlight cannot dispel, bringing peace and tranquility.

In the empty classroom, the incandescent lamp hanging in the sky also lit up, bringing not much warmth but extremely bright light.

As for the undead promotion ceremony, as mentioned before, Tang can certainly assist in this ceremony if he holds the corresponding seal.

After all, he had the uniqueness of the thief's path and a Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic of the same sequence. It was not impossible for him to directly steal Owen's memory and vitality, and then infuse his memory and vitality into him.

But he was not a thief after all, just like entering the ruins of the Gods' War and facing the daylight in the sky, he had no way and no ability to steal everything.

He could steal as much of Owen's memory and vitality as he wanted, and also give it back as much, but as a Sequence 4 Trickster, he couldn't control it precisely.

Tang, who is in the occult circle, although he relies on the fact that he is a time traveler and has a lot of high-level knowledge based on reading the original work, is not as experienced as Pales Zoroast.

Leave professional matters to professionals. What he has to do now is to use the characteristics of Euclidean space to determine the correct time for Owen to take the potion.

After all, he didn't want his brother to turn into a monster, or even a fool with no intelligence.

It's already enough. If there's any mistakes in the ceremony, he'll have to take care of both the old and the young...

Ah, nightmare.

"Who is this……"

Owen's pupils trembled as he watched the old man shatter his armor into extraordinary characteristics.

Directly destroying magical items and restoring Beyonder properties... Oh no, heaven, an angel?!
Tang took out the extraordinary characteristics and took out the corresponding auxiliary materials from the system space to mix the potion. He signaled Owen to squat on the other side of the incandescent lamp and prepare for the next ceremony.

The old man looked at Owen, who almost walked over at the same time, looked at Tang and then at him, shocked beyond words. After sitting on the chair, he was stunned. With a smile on his face, he put on the crystal monocle for himself.

The processed, harmless uniqueness is far more helpful to a Sequence 1 Beyonder of the same path than a simple 1+1 enhancement.

Pales Zoroastrian saw the clear thread of fate and glimpsed the long river of fate that had never been so clear before. He saw that all the thoughts, ideas, things, life, and even existence around him became clear and he understood them thoroughly.

He saw the nameless gray fog above the spiritual world, and saw things that he had only vaguely perceived before.

It was a legendary legacy left by the Creator, one of the nine essences.

That is something that really exists.

“This is uniqueness…”

Pales sighed in his heart, and glanced at Tang beside him through his eyes behind the monocle.

He saw thin lines spreading out from the other person's body, countless thin lines extending infinitely into the distance, extending to a distant place.

Those are the secret puppets he controls.

This operating distance is far beyond what a magician can control.

He also vaguely saw strange runes appearing on the other person's body from time to time. Those runes seemed to be the remnants of knowledge. Each rune symbolized a piece of extremely crazy knowledge fragment. They sometimes gathered and sometimes dispersed, surrounding the young man and were closely related to his destiny.

As for the deeper...

He saw ripples vaguely intertwined with the other party's fate, part of which drifted towards Sefirah Castle.

This strange mage has an indelible, mystical connection with Sefirah Castle and certain higher, more powerful beings...

"Pallez, have you forgotten the code of the cryptanalyst?"

Amon's slightly playful voice echoed in Pallez Zoroaster's mind. Pallez looked away and responded to the voice in his mind in a low and steady voice, "Amon, isn't it the same for you?"

"At least, I'm still alive, and you're dead."

Amon sneered, but said nothing more.

His reminder made Pales look away. After all, the code of cryptographers told him that what cannot be explored must never be explored.

Otherwise, in the extraordinary world, even gods and Sequence 1 angels may perish because of this.

This world hides too many secrets, but Pales never doubts them. This is the principle he has always adhered to throughout his life.

"Okay, let's get started."

Tang began to observe Owen's current condition through the vision of the secret doll stored in the Euclidean space, in order to determine the progress of the old man's stripping of the other party's memory and vitality, and then gave him the potion.

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The ceremony went smoothly.

With the help of the Sequence 1 angels, Owen had completed the Sequence 4 Undead Ascension Ceremony, except for the damage caused by his own state being unable to be effectively controlled when his memories and potion merged together, and he was unable to control the damage caused by his failure to control the mythical creature form.

Pales returned the monocle to Tang and left, shaking his head. He sighed as he walked, "As we get older, we really should go to bed and get up early every day."

No, you are not old at all. If everything goes well, you can live to see the return of the Lord of Mysteries.

Tang watched the Sequence 1 Angel leave, put the monocle back into his eye socket, and adjusted it.

He looked at Owen.

"how do you feel?"

Owen, who had regained his human form, calmed down his spiritual ups and downs while becoming familiar with the kind of divinity that looked down from above, without any emotion, indifferent and cold.

"This is, half-god, half-human?"

"Well, after opening this door, even if it leaves the category of 'human', it will be an incomplete mythical creature."

Tang opened the system panel, found what he wanted, and took it out from the system warehouse.

"I think you'll be able to summarize the rules of playing the undead yourself, and then..."

A small sack appeared from Don's hand. Owen looked over and asked, "What is that?"

"Oh, a talisman." Tang untied the sack, revealing a number of rectangular objects inside that sparkled like diamonds.

"This spell is called the 'Yesterday Reappearance' spell. Its effect is similar to Sequence 3 of the Diviner's Path, the extraordinary ability of ancient scholars."

There are at least thirty or forty talismans in a sack.

Ah, of course, most of these were made using other people's spirit worms. He had a Sequence 3 Secret Marionette of the Esoteric Order. As an ancient scholar, that ancient scholar of the Esoteric Order could naturally split the spirit worm and use it to make corresponding talismans.

However, the essence of the secret dolls is that they are all dead people. Using the spirit of the secret doll to make talismans will cause the spirit of the secret doll to be incomplete. The lack of spirit will cause the service life of the secret doll to plummet.

But he has the 'repair and cultivation' module. By spending a certain amount of knowledge fragments, he can restore the incomplete spirit caused by the splitting of the secret doll to a complete state.

It really hurts to split the soul worm and then kill it. If you can feel love for others, of course you should feel love for them.

Thus, a world where only the marionettes were hurt was achieved.

"There are two types of spells. One allows you to borrow power from your past self. Similarly, if you lose your memory due to the characteristics of the undead, or if your spiritual power is exhausted or your extraordinary items are lost, you can activate it by reciting the word 'history' in ancient Hermetic, ancient Feysac, Dragon Language, or other languages."

"And the other kind of spell," Tang took out the sack of spells, which also looked quite special. There were spells that were crystal clear, as gorgeous as diamonds and crystals. "The opening spell is..."

"'future'."

(End of this chapter)