Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 211 210 The Great Cthulhu
Countless puppets mixed with many extraordinary creatures fell from the air, and the originally empty and silent hall suddenly became a sea of ​​corpses. They were piled up together, and after losing the spiritual thread, they quickly underwent terrible changes. Countless extraordinary characteristics and various pollutions caused changes.

If left unchecked, it won't be long before, according to the law of conservation and indestructibility of extraordinary characteristics, one after another humanoids, humanoids, or monsters made up of countless limbs will appear here with strange abilities and terrifying conditions.

There was once a puppet in the Never-Ending Theater. It was a demigod-level puppet made up of countless limbs and extraordinary characteristics. The formation of that puppet also originated from a similar situation.

After stealing the spiritual threads of all the marionettes in the hall, Nicolas Flamel, the Sequence 1 Angel King, set his sights on the clumping worms that had extended their slippery and evil tentacles towards him.

The countless worms huddled together on the huge ancient stone seat were wriggling frantically, and each of them looked carefully at the intruder who disturbed their sleep with deep and dark eyes.

The huge and slippery tentacles passed through the lingering black air waves above the hall and stretched out countless evil tentacles towards Nicolas Flamel, trying to hang up anyone who dared to trespass here.

Nicholas pinched the crystal monocle in his right eye socket, but did not immediately try to steal the other party's ability.

This is a half-crazy, half-fool who has been contaminated by Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun. Without the help of the water from the River of Eternal Darkness, his attempt to steal it is very likely that he will steal Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun's awakened will along with it.

At that time, the Angel King of the Thief's Path and the Angel King of the Fortune Teller's Path will merge into one, and the birth of the Lord of Mysteries will become an almost irreversible outcome.

He was waiting for something, and the slippery tentacles had already stretched out in front of him.

Nicholas had already stolen the spiritual threads of other marionettes, making it difficult for the Angel King of the Diviner's path to accurately grasp his spiritual thread. When the slippery hand reached out, he didn't retreat, but instead advanced, taking a step forward, actively facing the countless slippery tentacles reaching out to him, and actively approaching the clump of worms still sitting on the stone chair.

The countless slippery tentacles touched the body of Nicolas Flamel, the Worm of Time.

Traces of fluid oozed out of his skin, and then this Sequence 1 angel disintegrated. His body transformed into a torrent-like tide, increasing in number without end. With a fierce and irresistible momentum, he rushed towards the worm vortex on the stone seat!

In the Euclidean space, Tang set a tablecloth engraved with various mysterious symbols and magical signs on fire. These images came from the gaps in history, recording the simplified ritual magic of praying to the magic book "Water God Ketayat".

The ritual magic that was activated by lighting the tablecloth and burning the corresponding objects was responded to the next moment by the magic books on the top floor of the library in Miskatonic University.

Everything has existed forever, and all that has been lost has simply changed its way to accompany ancient scholars.

For three hundred years, studying the combination of ritual magic and the abilities of ancient scholars was the basic quality for an ancient scholar about to be promoted to Sequence 3.

And it turns out that the extraordinary abilities of ancient scholars were quite useful at times.

"'Water God Ctayat' is a comprehensive study of the Deep Ones in the Cthulhu Mythos. It mentions many underwater cities and calls Father God Dagon and Mother Goddess Hydra the 'leaders' of the Deep Ones. The great Cthulhu and his star-spawn are also the subjects of its detailed research..."

"The book contains numerous descriptions of Cthulhu, the Deep One, and his worshippers, as well as extensive descriptions of the ocean environment and its internal changes... These texts recording the ocean environment also serve as objects of ritual magical prayer, producing activated knowledge..."

The unclean ocean swallowed up all the marionettes. At that moment, all the marionettes submerged in the sea water turned into corpses that dissolved in the sea water. More slippery and evil tentacles surged out from the place where Nicolas Flamel dissolved into sea water and flowed back into the Marionette Hall.

Tang continued to pull at the images from the cracks in history. While observing the state of Antigonus on the stone chair through the authority of Euclidean space, he continued to light the tablecloth in his hand, sacrificing the mysterious symbols and magical signs engraved on it with countless silver and gold.

It turns out that a Sequence 3 Ancient Scholar of the Diviner Path, once paired with corresponding, rapidly released ritual magic, can directly transform into a powerful mobile warehouse storing various 'occult bombs'.

To put it in professional terms, this is a fast, no-CD, large-scale, high-precision casting, and all of it will be magic damage with high DPS attack speed and high damage.

By continuously pulling the tablecloth corresponding to the corresponding ritual magic, Tang further exerted influence, causing Antigonus, who was already at a disadvantage in the battle with Tianzun and was only one step away from becoming the real 'Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun', to rapidly decline in condition.

"Quickly weaken the opponent to achieve further control. Then, whether it's by making a secret puppet or some other method, once a safe threshold is reached, Nicholas will steal the opponent's Beyonder characteristics."

Directly stealing the corresponding Beyonder characteristics from a Beyonder is almost impossible in normal combat. Only by completely controlling the Angel King of the Diviner Path Sequence 1 can one steal the Beyonder characteristics and uniqueness without killing the opponent.

As for why not kill?
Why didn't the Goddess of Night kill Antigonus and take away his uniqueness and extraordinary characteristics? Was it because she didn't want to?

"Killing him would only lead to worse consequences. It's possible that the Miracle Master who 'resurrected' wasn't Antigonus, but directly Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun. Or perhaps Antigonus's extraordinary characteristics and uniqueness were directly reactivated after losing Antigonus, the carrier of the contamination. This is also equivalent to Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun's further resurrection."

Antigonus cannot be killed, he can only be stolen, sealed, suppressed, and hidden through some means.

Thus, Misty Town was established.

No one wants the former Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun to be resurrected. After all, that is the real and terrifying existence.

Compared to such a treacherous Old One, the Seven Good Gods, the Evil Gods, and the Outer Gods still beyond the barrier all preferred that the Lord of Mysteries not be born. The Good and Evil Gods of Earth, on the other hand, preferred a new Lord of Mysteries. "Now that Antigonus is in the misty town, under the influence of the Goddess of Night, I can at least slowly wear him down."

"The Seven Gods and the barrier are still there, preventing the Outer Gods from infiltrating. I've also reduced Amon to Sequence 2, and Adam hasn't yet been promoted to Visionary. The Primordial Witch and the Hidden Sage, if one is in a bad state, the other is a natural enemy of the system. If the former comes, the Evernight Goddess can directly stop it and even restore the evil god to its pure Beyonder characteristics and uniqueness."

As for the latter, does the hidden sage dare to come?

Although I don't know what the exact state of this thing is, whether it was activated by the pollution of the wilderness of knowledge, is it another backup for that source of essence, or is there some other problem that caused it to suddenly come alive.

However, the system's mission was clearly written there. If the Hidden Sage arrived, he would abandon his plans to advance to Sequence 1 this time, and would bring along those future Sequence 1s, those True Gods, and Marionettes, and send the Hidden Sage to the Western Paradise on the spot.

"In the original novel, when Xiao Ke became the King of Angels and was promoted to the Fool, he didn't have the conditions I have."

While burning the tablecloth to quickly achieve the effect of portable ritual magic, Tang observed the hall that had been completely engulfed by the sea.

There were countless corpses floating up and down, each one becoming more and more slippery, and huge tentacles rising from the bottom of the water.

The Book of Eibon, also known as the Book of Lamentations, records the existence of Tsathoggua and his invisible sons, the serpent-men, Abhoth, Atlach-Naqya, the ice maggot Lulim Shakroth, etc., and has many echoes with the Book of the Dead.

The three magic books together record the ancient god sleeping on the earth, the great Cthulhu.

"It depicts a monster, vaguely human-like, with an octopus-like head covered in tentacles. Its body resembles a scaly, gelatinous mass, with giant claws and a pair of narrow wings behind it... Its bloated, obese body, dripping with slime, a massive green form, lurched out of the dark opening and into view... like a mountain ridge moving between heaven and earth."

The unclean ocean completely engulfed the hall filled with secret dolls. The sea water submerged the ancient stone chairs, and the whirlpool formed by countless worms with countless slippery tentacles extending from above was also submerged in the deep and dark sea water.

The bottom of the hall seemed to have collapsed, and it seemed to be connected to the deep sea. Under the cold water was a deep sea that stretched for thousands of miles and was invisible to the naked eye. Looking at the darkness that seemed to have no end, it was as if one had come to a dark and enclosed abyss, unable to struggle.

At the bottom of the sea, there is a city.

It was an extremely large city. Its structure was similar to futuristic art, but the structures of the buildings were completely distorted. These buildings were built with huge green stones that were too big to be from the earth. Its unprecedented spatial structure and dimensions, magnificent stone statues and gorgeous reliefs made the entire city exude a strong unclean smell, which made people feel nauseous at first sight. It was impossible to describe such a city with any language or senses.

This is the place where Cthulhu sleeps, the city of R'lyeh from ancient mystery.

Huge, slimy tentacles slowly floated out from the ancient city called R'lyeh. Its tentacles originated from a head, a huge, terrifying, unclean, crazy thing that could bring absurd fear to people just by looking at it.

"In the eternal mansion, R'lyeh, Cthulhu sleeps in your sleep."

In the bottomless ocean, Tang stood in the center of this deep and dark environment, looking at the worm vortex that seemed even more crazy because of the appearance of Cthulhu.

A large amount of mental shock, large-scale mental pollution, the mere appearance of the shadow of the Old Ones represents a kind of extreme mental destruction. People who are not rational enough or are on the verge of mental collapse will have their SAN value reduced to zero the moment they see this scene, and will directly disintegrate into countless pieces of flesh and die. It is reasonable.

But this only works if there is no equivalent in the target body.

Just as Tang had expected, when the three magic books, the Book of the Dead, the Book of Eibon, and the Water God Ketayat, responded to the ceremony together, the spiritual pollution of the knowledge wilderness and the infinite knowledge came to life. The crazy knowledge was constantly pouring into the mind of the individual named Antigonus through all material and mystical methods such as seeing, hearing, touching, and understanding. As a third-party force, it forcibly inserted itself into the tug-of-war between Antigonus and Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun.

This caused the will of Tianzun, which had just begun to recover, to be strongly invaded by a large number of crazy and irrational other spiritual pollutions in an instant. Under this stimulation, the wriggling worms kept trembling, and a layer of gray-white mist seemed to appear on their bodies. During the mist, Tang saw that in the vortex of the constantly wriggling worms, there was an eye that looked extremely calm but secretly crazy, looking at him.

With just one encounter, the "unobservable" state of Euclidean space was broken. Tang felt that the spiritual insects in his body were like crazy. They left his body one after another and turned into one equally crazy and irrational insect after another.

They were crazy. They had been strengthened in the mystical sense by the will of the Lord of Mysteries that had begun to revive. The will of the Celestial Lord had been strengthened by being too close to the Angel King of Sequence 1 of the Diviner's Path, too close to the uniqueness of this path and the Celestial Lord who had begun to revive!

It was at this moment that the half-collapsed Antigonus felt that the thread of his spiritual body was being manipulated.

Nicolas Flamel, the Angel King who transformed into a vast ocean of thieves' paths, was trying to manipulate the threads of His spirit body.

Because of the forced interference of a third-party force, Antigonus actually had a hint of getting out of his crazy state. The initially recovered Heavenly Lord looked indifferently at the huge, unclean building at the bottom of the deep sea and the great existence in the building. He did not forcibly get rid of his current state, nor did he try to take back his spiritual thread, but looked at Tang who was already in a semi-out-of-control state.

The once fallen Lord of Mystery laughed.

"You think hiding in the dark won't affect you?"

(End of this chapter)