Life has dealt a heavy hand to a weak demigod like me.

This emotion appears quickly and disappears quickly.

"Not yet...at least not yet..."

"I also have to protect Theresa and the others..."

"Until we ensure their safety... we must not lose control..."

Doug slowly stood up, then walked outside the door and half-knelt in front of the fallen guard. Then he took a deep breath, and the dark green aura on the guard was absorbed into his body.

Then Doug returned to the office again.

"From the moment I asked you for 'it'... you should have known that so-called promises are the least trustworthy."

"You should have refused..."

"I don't have the power to control it."

"A mad dog like me is not qualified to control such a dangerous force."

The dark green aura continued to swirl and shrink in the room. Doug whispered something, but unfortunately, the person who could have said something to him at this time had disappeared long ago.

"I'm so sorry... I let you down..."

"But...thank you so much..."

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Chapter 157 Chapter 37 Ugly Heart

There are four continents in the world: East, West, South and North.

Each continent has its own prosperous civilization.

Over tens of thousands of years of history, these civilizations have flourished and prospered, and some even almost unified the entire world.

But the development of civilization has never been smooth sailing.

Just as there are civilizations that almost unify the world, there are also civilizations that almost destroy the world.

It's not an exaggeration.

The rise and fall of each era are accompanied by corresponding events.

The disappearance of the gods caused the "Era of Five Gods" to evolve into the "Era of Godlessness", and the further decline of the church's power caused the "Era of Godlessness" to turn into the "Era of Darkness".

The appearance of black fire ushered in the "Black Fire Era", and its disappearance ushered in the "Steam Era".

A lot of things happened between the "Golden Age" and the "Silver Age".

In that secret history, and in existing texts, the "God of Plague" occupies a large part of the text.

He once unleashed a plague that swept across the entire world, and through the "disease" produced by the plague, he was only one step away from becoming God.

In that era, He was the undisputed king.

Even when facing the assembled demigods, he could fight back and forth with the help of the favorable environment.

Unfortunately, when He was only one step away from becoming a God, the plague that permeated the world suddenly disappeared.

And His body was found in His palace.

No one knows how He fell, just as no one knows how He rose.

Afterwards, the damage He caused and the way He was promoted would seriously affect the promotion of most demigods - after all, for most demigods, the way they were promoted was related to people.

The extraordinary property known as "Plague" was divided into ten parts and sealed and kept by the most powerful demigods at that time.

As time goes by, some of the demigods who preserved the "plague" are still alive, but some have died.

The Sea of ​​No Return, outside the unknown island, on a sailboat.

"Roden, is the boat you built any good? I'm a little worried that if a wave hits us, we'll all be eaten by fish."

The water in the Sea of ​​No Return is highly corrosive, and even high-level transcendents will suffer misfortune if they fall into the water.

The small sailboat in front of them, which had only taken one day to build, didn't look like it could take them out of here.

"Don't worry, I've checked. The currents in the Sea of ​​No Return have been very calm recently. There won't be strong winds or big waves." Lying on the deck, Rotten held a straw in his mouth, as if he was savoring the aftertaste of his previous adventure.

"What's in that hole?" After raising the sail, Doug couldn't suppress his curiosity and moved closer to Rotten.

"Shouldn't you have guessed it? You have seen the murals outside." Rotun stretched and then slowly sat up.

"The extraordinary characteristics of the God of Plague?" Doug swallowed.

The extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 3...this has been his lifelong dream.

Gods, true gods, were too far away for him. But as a Sequence 3 demigod, it was still okay to dream occasionally.

"Part of it is described on the mural." Rotten took out a coconut, poked it with a wooden tube, and drank the coconut juice while saying, "After the Plague God died, His extraordinary characteristics were divided into many parts. This is just one of them." "How should I put it? It's much stronger than the extraordinary characteristics of a Sequence 4, but still far behind the Sequence 3 demigod."

"Perhaps only by gathering all the fragments can one truly possess the extraordinary characteristics of a demigod." Rotten's tone was somewhat indifferent.

"Are you going to use him to advance?" Doug's eyes flickered and he didn't dare to look at Roton.

"How could that be? Our Krolov family has our own goals. I think I already have some clues. If everything goes well, maybe my daughter, or grandson, or great-grandson can also open up a new extraordinary path to become a demigod."

Or rather, not just demigods.

If the path is correct, the moment they become demigods, they can merge with the holy light and become subordinate gods.

However, this kind of thing is based on the premise that everything goes well, and for an adventurer, "everything goes well" is impossible.

"The Plague Fragment can be considered a Sequence 4 Transcendental characteristic, but it's different from ordinary Sequence 4 Transcendental characteristics. After fusing it, there's a high probability of losing control. Furthermore, if you want to become a demigod, there's no other way except to find other fragments to fuse and upgrade."

The advancement of the extraordinary sequence can be repeated, but the fragments of "Plague" are not strictly speaking the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 4, but part of the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 3.

The probability of successful fusion for ordinary people is very low, but after a successful fusion, the strength will be higher than that of the average Sequence 4, and it will also completely cut off other ways of promotion.

After all, a person who has fused the fragments of the plague can no longer be considered a Sequence 4 Saint, strictly speaking. He still has a trace of divinity.

Although small, it is still powerful.

In this situation, even if he had acquired the new extraordinary characteristics of a Sequence 3, he would not be able to advance. After all, the collision of divinity and divinity is the most deadly poison for a Sequence 4 Saint.

"So...what are you going to do with it?" Doug's eyes fell on Rotten.

"Of course we have to find a place to seal it," Rotten said matter-of-factly. "I was really reckless this time. If the seals and mechanisms outside hadn't been destroyed, leaving the fragments of the plague here might cause some bad things. I really wanted to just throw it here and leave it alone."

The murals and stone carvings told many secrets of Rawdon's past, so the fragments of the plague were a hot potato for him.

At the same time, in his opinion, this kind of thing should not be released.

Its final destination is to be sealed or purified.

"How about leaving it to me..." Doug blurted out after Rotten finished speaking.

"You?" Rotun scratched his head, then took out a dark green, wriggling tentacle from his trouser pocket.

"It's not impossible to give it to you, but you have to promise me not to contain this power..."

"Forget it. It seems a bit difficult not to let you accommodate me."

"I hope you will promise me that you will not tolerate it until it is critical, and that you will not allow the 'plague' to spread no matter what happens."

A Plague Bringer of Sequence 4 could easily unleash a plague in a country, and a Plague Bringer with divine power would require a certain amount of effort and cost to eliminate even for a demigod.

Perhaps because it was divided, this fragment could not cause a disaster that spread throughout the world, but it was still extremely dangerous.

"Don't worry... You know my ideal. I just want to inherit the glory of my ancestors." Doug's tone was a little flickering.

but...

Looking at the tentacle casually stuffed into his hand and Rotten's smile, he closed his eyes and gritted his teeth and said, "I swear, I will never tolerate this power. I swear on the honor of the Severus family!"

In the study of Severus Manor, a dark green aura was swirling in the study.

"Rotten... do you know? At that time..." A glass of wine that had been infected by the virus fell into Doug's mouth.

"When you told me about the 'plague', an idea came to my mind."

"Even if it was only for a moment..."

"But... at that time, I thought... if I suddenly killed you, would that mean that all your gains this time would be mine?"

No one knows better than Doug what the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 4 mean in this country.

In the Kingdom of York, although the Severus family seemed to be in its heyday, Doug knew that the Severus family had been on a downward slope.

Even though he inherited the position of head of the family, he was never able to reverse this decline.

"How despicable..."

"You've saved me more than once, and you almost sacrificed your life for me."

"But I was thinking..."

"I... am nothing." Doug lowered his head with a self-deprecating smile on his face.

When Rodon casually handed the "Plague Fragment" to him, he had the idea of ​​killing and stealing.

Since then, Doug left Rawdon in the name of developing his family.

It's not that he doesn't like adventure or that he doesn't like being with Rawdon.

He was just scared.

Afraid that that evil thought would come back to me again.

"I swore not to take the plague into my body, but I played a few tricks."

"At the time, I was thinking that even if I didn't need it myself, my son, grandson, and the rest of the Severus family could use it."

But after he left, he ultimately chose not to do so, and Doug himself couldn't explain why.

Perhaps it was because the other party knew clearly what he was thinking but still didn't say anything, or maybe it was because he denied his past despicable side.

He originally thought that he could keep his promise for the rest of his life.

"Just like you said, it's very dangerous. I can't even completely control the spread of the virus."

"Perhaps Moroston, the Kingdom of York will perish because of me."

"But... before that, I will send all those bastards to hell."

"In the extraordinary world, 'madmen' will never disappear, or rather, they will never disappear." Doug grinned, revealing an ugly smile.

"Let's start with the so-called Mother Tree of Hatred... All those who caused this to happen... deserve to die!"

The dark green air slowly drifted from the study to the sky, and gradually spread to the surroundings.

The cloud of virus slowly enveloped Moroston and slowly spread to other places.

"Do you want to stop it?"

In the college office, while correcting homework, Charles looked out the window at the clouds that were beginning to change.

"Things like epidemics can cause great disasters if you're not careful."

"I don't even like preventing revenge."

As the high priest of the Church of the Earth, Charles agrees with most of the church's doctrines.

The only thing he disagrees with is revenge.

Repaying resentment with virtue, why repay virtue?

It is right to persuade people to be good, but Charles thinks it is unreasonable to persuade them to let go of hatred.

"Let's weaken it. If a big disaster happens, Melnade will be sad." Charles waved his cane lightly, and the dark green color in the sky began to fade slowly.

The virus that was originally powerful enough to cause a major epidemic in the entire country gradually weakened into a highly contagious influenza.

"At the same time, as a subsidy to interfere with your revenge, let fate help you."

In the study, the black and white pieces on a Go board that did not appear in this world began to move slowly, and some extraordinary people representing the power of the "Revenge Mother Tree" were slowly guided towards Doug.

Under the guidance of fate, these people will soon lose their minds and do things that are not in line with common sense, just like the villains in knight novels.

"Logic doesn't need to exist in life. Anything can happen."

"It's just that every time I interfere with fate... I always feel a little uncomfortable."

While Ciel could control some aspects of fate, he didn't particularly enjoy interfering. He couldn't pinpoint the specific reason, perhaps due to his simple values ​​or perhaps something else.

In all the battles, most of the time Charles likes to use fate to cover up his own traces and then fight with real weapons, rather than using the power of fate to directly wipe out the opponent.