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

"Perhaps it's because my power comes from my master, and also because of the special nature of this place."

Peroz was stunned. Because of the appearance of the Holy Gate, she almost forgot that her main purpose of coming here was to find the key to leave here.

"Does Mr. Men know this place well?"

The Holy Gate nodded and said, "It took me a long time to find this place."

"It is precisely because of the special nature of this place that I can see the master and you who may appear in the future in my dreams."

"What's so special about this place? The people of the Lost City believe it's the prison at the center of the Earth. Legend has it that those deemed unforgivable by the Church of the Earth are imprisoned here."

"No, no, no... This place is different from the prison at the center of the earth." The Holy Gate whispered.

Peroz looked a little downcast.

If this is the underground prison, she can still lead everyone out with the information she got from Charles.

If this is not the case, then the possibility of me taking everyone out will become very low.

But she wasn't too sad.

With the Holy Gate and Charles, Peroz believed that what he hoped for in his heart would definitely be accomplished.

However, compared to relying on others, Peroz prefers to rely on his own strength.

"Mr. Men, can you tell me everything you know here?" Peroz asked with a smile after calming down.

"Of course." The Holy Gate nodded.

"This is the place where the gods fell."

"Legend has it that a true god fell here." The tone of the Holy Gate was a little emotional.

He is very familiar with this place.

At least it was once very familiar.

As one of his trump cards, after being exiled, even a demigod would be slowly eroded by the special aura contained here.

Eventually, they become unlike themselves and then go on the path of self-destruction.

The sacred gate can be vaguely felt. Even if the aura here comes from God, it will probably be very troublesome if it is contaminated.

But...Charles transformed this place.

After eliminating the strange aura caused by the fall of the true god, not only did this place not decline, but the cage outside was strengthened.

Although the previous strange power to induce people to self-destruction was gone, the ban that directly deprived the extraordinary people of their power made the Holy Gate feel even more terrified and shocked.

"A true god has fallen?" Peroz's eyes fell on the surroundings and his expression became excited.

"Yes, it is said that before the five righteous gods ascended to the throne, the world was incomparably chaotic and fragile."

"Compared to other creatures, humans are like ants."

"Although it's almost useless to them, occasionally some extraordinary creatures will gently place their "feet" down, just like a person stepping down and crushing an ant."

"Maybe it was accidental, maybe it was for fun, or maybe it was just along for the ride?"

"The emergence of the Five Gods changed this. They set constraints."

"The bond between supernatural beings and humans."

"Within restraint, human life is as valuable as the lives of those extraordinary creatures."

"No, it's not just humans. All intelligent life, regardless of their strength, is equally noble."

"They are powerful, so those extraordinary creatures can only do what they want."

"However, there are still many creatures in the world who believe they are stronger than them."

"War was inevitable."

"The Five Gods defeated all who sought to challenge the order they established."

"Some true gods are among them, and this is where one of them fell."

Speaking of this, the expression on the Divine Gate became somewhat complicated.

To be honest, he really admired and was grateful to the first person who entered here. If he hadn't entered here, he would not have built a tomb for himself and made a door leading to his home.

Then his predecessor would not be able to come here with the help of the rules of the door.

At the same time, he probably wouldn't have had the chance to be born from the door.

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Chapter 363: Chapter 33: I must find a way to become that adult’s door!

"A true god, even a fallen true god, possesses infinite power."

"This kind of power left behind after death is troublesome even for the true gods."

"As long as the rules represented by that true god and the concepts he controlled still exist in some corner of this world, even if someone else takes over his control of those rules and concepts, the power or resentment they leave behind will still be like a cancer in the flesh, destroying everything in this world."

"However...through special means, this power can be utilized. Even when the replacements of those fallen True Gods reach a certain level of strength, this power may be reabsorbed and accommodated."

"Once upon a time, this place also had a true god who controlled everything. He must have reached the level where he could absorb and control all the power here."

"However, before he could completely absorb the power here, he disappeared."

"That's why I was able to draw strength from this place in a special way and realize that beautiful dream full of hope."

Out of ten sentences, eight or nine are false.

But under the acting of the Holy Gate, Peroz did not doubt him for a moment.

"So, do you have a way to leave here?" Peroz asked seriously.

"Two ways." The Holy Gate closed his eyes and thought for a while, then said seriously.

"The first is to find a way to contact the master. The master's power can easily break through the boundaries here."

Peroz looked at the Holy Gate in surprise. "Mr. Gate, when Rocks left you, he was only a demigod, right? Why are you so confident in him?"

"The master is different." The Divine Gate said with great reservation.

Looking at his expression and some of Charles's performance, Peroz nodded thoughtfully.

"What's the other way?" she asked curiously.

"ceremony."

"A ceremony that has been held in this city for countless years." As the Sacred Gate spoke, he turned around and pointed to the tomb behind him that had lost its door.

"This is a way Hart Dick found to get out of here before he died."

"But at that time he no longer had the strength to perform such a ceremony, so he recorded his discovery in the tomb."

Peroz was a little surprised. She had just looked through everything inside and didn't find anything related to the ceremony.

“That was deliberately erased.”

"I don't know who it is exactly, but I've only woken up twice since I fell asleep here. Once now, and once a long time ago."

"At that time, a fight broke out here. Five demigods fought using each other's blood as ritual materials." The expression of the Holy Gate became a little strange.

What he wants to talk about now is what he has experienced himself.

Telling his past as the background of a story was a very complex and novel experience for him.

"When enough blood is absorbed by the earth here, when only one living being remains here, when that living being has the resolve to wield the sword like a righteous god, he will inherit the power here and leave as the victor."

The look on the Sacred Gate was somewhat nostalgic.

A long time ago, after the Kru demigod used his last strength to exile the demigods who besieged him here.

When those people found the results of Hart Dick's research, they fought among themselves and only one person was left. He was born from the blood flowing in the demigods.

The last demigod who cursed the sky and the earth and was eventually killed by himself due to gradually losing strength due to injuries probably didn't expect that a door like this would appear.

At that time, he had the opportunity to inherit the power of a fallen god, but he escaped from here directly with the help of the rules he controlled - as long as he absorbed and controlled all the power of the extraordinary characteristics, and as long as he accumulated some more power, he could naturally become a subordinate god.

Inheriting the power of the True God of Death would at most make him a subordinate god.

If that's the case, why should I risk becoming an enemy of the righteous God to inherit this power?

Swinging a knife at the righteous god...this is not courage, this is stupidity.

As a door with a hidden purpose, in order to prevent himself from being entangled by that power again, he never opened the door here again.

Until Charles casually wiped out the power here, until Peroz and Hogot used a method that insulted his intelligence to make him open the door to this place...

"Salieri...Did Salieri ever perform this ceremony?" Peroz suddenly thought of something.

If we follow the Sacred Gate and Salieri's own account, he should have performed a similar ceremony.

After all, he said he had found this place out of revenge and had killed everyone banished there by the Kru demigod.

For a long time he was the only one here.

So he must have performed this ceremony passively.

But...why didn't he leave here?

"Perhaps he has held it before, but you have to pay attention to one thing. The most important thing in the ceremony is not to spill blood all over the land, nor is it to leave only one person. These conditions are dispensable." The Holy Gate has the most say on this point.

He is the gate that inherited everything from the Kru demigods and many fallen demigods.

The Kru demigod was the second demigod to discover this place after the true god disappeared.

At that time, he had the opportunity to inherit the power left by the True God here, but he made the same choice as the Holy Gate. The reason was also the same as the Holy Gate.

Not only him, but also Hart Dick, who found this place according to the legacy left by a certain True God Church, faced this problem. He was the first person known by the Holy Gate who chose to give up inheriting everything here.

Unlike the Sacred Gate and the Kru demigod, Hart Dick lacked the ability to leave. However, after sensing the voice within and summarizing these insights, he chose to die peacefully. He also chose to place his findings prominently in the tomb he built for himself.

At the bottom of the ceremony there is a bold text:

Performing this ritual might allow you to leave this place, or gain limitless power, but you'll lose yourself. For others, self may not be as important as power and freedom, but for a brilliant artist like me, death is not something to fear.

[I don't want to hate people who haven't hurt me just because of my power~]

Many memories of the other party flashed through the mind of the Holy Gate, but he continued to speak, "For the ritual, the most important thing is whether you have the courage to wield the sword against the righteous god."

"Do you have any intention of seeking revenge for the fallen demigod?"

"Once you inherit this power, you've signed an irreconcilable contract."

"This contract will change a person's soul, turning him into a pitiful creature consumed by hatred."

Hatred seemed very strange to the Holy Gate - although he had witnessed the joys and sorrows of mankind for countless years, as a gate, he could not fully understand many things.

"So... Mr. Salieri is a believer of the Goddess of Night, so he naturally wouldn't choose revenge according to his own beliefs. So did the ritual fail in the end?" Peroz said with a sigh of relief.

She still has a good impression of Salieri.

After arriving here, Salieri basically told her everything he knew and asked for help.

Without him, Peroz feels he would have taken a lot of detours.

The Holy Gate looked at Peroz and didn't speak for a long time.

He remembered that Peroz was a very smart man, so why was he acting a little foolishly at this moment...

"Ms. Krolov, you must know that if my presence is not discovered, the ceremony will never be able to proceed."

Peroz was stunned. Then he sighed.

The purpose of the ritual is to ensure that only one living being remains here, and that living being is not a human.

All life can be described as living beings.

Suppose Salieri had performed a ritual, but according to the ritual, he killed all the lives he knew, that is, the people he said he wanted revenge on.

But because he ignored Mr. Men's presence here, the ceremony was ultimately not completed, and he did not gain the power to leave here.

Eventually he lost trust in the content of the ceremony, which led to some of the things he said later.

Therefore, what he had said to himself before was most likely not for revenge, but to hold a ceremony, a ceremony that would allow him to escape from here.

But in the end he failed.

Peroz carefully recalled the scene of his contact with Salieri, every word he said, and every expression of his.

If you think about it carefully, you seem to find many loopholes and many places that are worthy of suspicion.