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Klein looked at Hobert, who was studying the stone slabs on the ground. He remembered Hobert mentioning at the Tarot Gathering that the first 'Blasphemy Slate' occasionally appeared in the Second Epoch, and frequently in the Third Epoch, but since the Cataclysm, there seemed to be no records of it.
Based on this mural, he guessed: the 'Blasphemy Slate' was closely related to the Ancient Sun God! The Ancient Sun God appeared in the latter half of the Second Epoch. Although the process of his becoming a god was unknown, according to the limited information currently available, he seemed to have gradually recovered the authority of the ancient gods. Perhaps he was occasionally in a dormant state in the Second Epoch? That's why the 'Blasphemy Slate' occasionally appeared?
Klein continued to guess: the Third Epoch was the era of the Ancient Sun God, so the 'Blasphemy Slate' was always in front of people. After the Cataclysm, the Ancient Sun God fell, so the 'Blasphemy Slate' disappeared?
Then he had new questions: Where did the 'Blasphemy Slate' go? And where did it come from?
Alger hadn't noticed this yet, and tentatively asked, "The Ancient Sun God?"
Klein was about to nod and say "Yes," but then he thought that he was currently playing the role of Gehrman Sparrow, so he said, "It's not hard to see."
Alger asked again, "In the Fourth Epoch, were there still people building churches for the Ancient Sun God? Were there still people worshiping the Ancient Sun God?"
Could this be the reason why this place was abandoned? After all, no matter how they prayed, they would not receive a response from the gods, while worshiping other gods could easily elicit a response.
Over time, a large number of the Ancient Sun God's believers would inevitably convert.
Klein didn't answer this question because he didn't know the answer either.
"I suspect that this island was not originally in its current location," Hobert, who was squatting on the ground, suddenly said, "Look at these small grooves formed by the cracks on these stone slabs. They are all the size of a human forehead and extend forward."
"What does this make you think of?"
Before Klein and Alger could answer, Hobert answered himself, "What I think of is devout believers prostrating themselves on the ground, crawling forward, and hitting the ground hard with their foreheads every so often, causing them to bleed. That's why these marks are dark red."
"Some of them may be Beyonders, but most of them should be ordinary people, because if Beyonders casually cracked the stone slabs here, it would be a very impolite act. And even if they cracked the stone slabs, they probably wouldn't bleed."
Hobert stood up and looked at the end of the traces, "There should have been a large number of believers who passed through here time and time again, eventually leaving such traces."
"But this small island obviously can't support so many people, so I infer that this island may not have been in this location before, or this church was not on this island."
"It may have been in a more prosperous place than here, or even somewhere on the North or South Continent."
Klein nodded, it wasn't impossible, but a new question arose: "Who moved this church to this island? Why would he do this?"
To be able to do this, at least an angel-level Beyonder was required, so Klein directly used "He."
Hobert smiled, "Maybe some people didn't want to see the Ancient Sun God's church exist."
He paused and added, "I can imagine the believers here piously praying for their god's response, but only reaping disappointment time and time again."
"At the same time, they also had to face some other blows, such as believers and Beyonders from hostile churches."
Klein wanted to continue asking, but saw Hobert walking forward first, obviously not intending to continue talking about this topic.
Continuing forward, they came to the end of the hall, where the three of them saw the steps leading down.
Alger had never been to the underground area either, so Hobert led the way in the underground exploration, with Alger in the middle and Klein at the back.
They first saw some stone statues and murals in the corridor. The stone statues were obviously some explorers who had been petrified before, and were moved here by someone or something.
The remaining murals depicted the Ancient Sun God defeating the ancient gods and saving the world.
In the dim environment, the broken murals and the petrified statues with terrified expressions made the surrounding environment very strange.
The three of them could feel that there seemed to be some danger hidden here, so they walked carefully, for fear of waking something up.
Suddenly, there was a "thump, thump, thump" sound in front of them, as if some monster was wandering in the underground corridor.
Hobert in the front said, "To save time, I'll take care of it."
As soon as he finished speaking, a tall figure nearly four meters high walked out from the corner ahead. Its entire body was grayish-white, and its surface was engraved with scale-like patterns. Its head had sharp goat horns.
What was most attractive about it was its pair of red glowing eyes and six pairs of grayish-white wings.
Although Klein had never seen the real thing, he recognized what it was at a glance: a Six-Winged Gargoyle!
Its core crystal was one of the main ingredients for 'Marionettist'.
While Klein was pondering the combat power and Beyonder abilities of the one in front of him, he saw Hobert 'distorting' the distance between himself and the Six-Winged Gargoyle as if he were taking a leisurely stroll, and almost instantly appeared in front of the Six-Winged Gargoyle. He jumped up, grabbed the goat horns on its head, and tore the Six-Winged Gargoyle's head completely off its neck.
The Six-Winged Gargoyle's body really turned into a stone statue this time, stiffly falling forward. Hobert held its chest with one hand, slowly lowering it as if he were taking care of a drunkard.
The Six-Winged Gargoyle didn't seem to react at all throughout the whole process. It didn't make much noise until its body fell to the ground.
The 'Disorder' of a demigod was simply indefensible to a Sequence 5 Beyonder creature.
Because there was really no room for anything else in his leather bag, Hobert simply gouged out the Six-Winged Gargoyle's eyes while accelerating the precipitation of its core crystal.
It only took a dozen seconds from hunting to harvesting the spoils, which made Klein and Alger sigh: it was really necessary to have a demigod participate in this exploration.
Even if the two of them worked together, they would definitely make a lot of noise to solve such a Beyonder creature, and it would definitely be impossible to solve the enemy so easily in such a narrow space.
Stepping over the Six-Winged Gargoyle lying on the ground, the three of them continued forward and finally reached the end of the tunnel.
There was a seven- or eight-meter-high stone door here, engraved with mystical symbols of death and sleep.
As Alger had explained before, this was a structure with a church above and a tomb below.
Hobert in the front casually pushed open the tall stone door, revealing a row of grayish-white stone coffins. This was an underground burial hall.
After confirming that there were no obvious dangers inside, Hobert took the lead and entered. The burial hall near the entrance was divided into left and right sections, each with twelve stone coffins. In the center was an empty circular area, and there seemed to be a beautiful and complex picture on the ground.
Further away, there were many more stone coffins and a large space, so large that the edges could not be seen. This underground structure seemed to be very huge.
Hobert, who was walking in the front, came to the central area and glanced at it. The main body of the picture on the ground was a long table, on which lay a figure with a radiant cross on his back, surrounded by three shadowy figures.
One of them was handsome and energetic, one was majestic and heroic, and one had a white beard and looked very wise, but their eyes were filled with unspeakable evil, and their behavior was the same:
One of them tore off the arm of the figure on the long table, one held up his head, and one dug out his still-beating heart.
In the chest and abdomen of that figure, there was a long and wide crack, inside which sat a gloomy and dark baby!
The four of them seemed to have noticed that someone was peeking, and their eyes looked up at the same time, as if they were watching every living being who saw this painting!
After seeing this picture, Klein's head exploded as if he had received some information from his previous transaction with Hobert: The 'Pure White Angel' later became the 'Eternal Blazing Sun,' the 'Wind Angel' later became the 'Lord of Storms,' and the 'Cherub' later became the 'God of Knowledge and Wisdom.' Then, the figure on the long table was the Ancient Sun God? They devoured the Ancient Sun God, so they completed the process of becoming gods?
Then he thought of the information about the 'Rose Redemption' that Hobert described: Could the 'Rose Redemption' have been formed to kill the Ancient Sun God and allow these three to become gods?
Klein shook his head and felt that this guess was not quite right: There was no such harmony between the gods, or was the act of killing the Ancient Sun God actually planned by these three?
Finally, he calmed down: This mural may not be true. It may be a kind of slander. In the 'Forsaken Land of the Gods,' there were images of the six gods that had been clearly darkened.
At this time, Alger, who had also seen this picture, was shaking uncontrollably with both hands, like an epileptic patient. He also thought of the information he had traded from the 'Emperor' and made many blasphemous guesses.
The two of them looked at the 'Emperor' together, only to see that Hobert's expression was as usual, and he even had a smile on his face, as if he was appreciating the artistry of this painting.
Then the two of them realized: He knew about this!
Klein even further thought: This may be the other part of that 20,000-pound intelligence!
At this time, Hobert had a sense of having come to a famous scenic spot to check in: The characters inside are lifelike, as if injected with a certain spirituality, which reminds me of the oil paintings in Hogwarts Academy.
Just as Klein was about to ask a question, he suddenly heard a sharp "tearing" sound.
Before Klein and Alger could react, Hobert, who was prepared, had already kicked a stone coffin next to him flying.
Thump!
With a muffled sound, the stone coffin directly shattered on the wall, and the corpse inside fell out, its head falling off and rolling far away.
But the headless corpse immediately got up as if waking up from a deep sleep, groping to find its head.
The lids of the other two stone coffins next to them also opened, and a corpse stood up in each of them.
One of the corpses was wearing a simple white robe, and its forehead and the back of its hands were covered with deep eyes.
The other corpse was wearing a triangular hat, and slimy, thick tentacles emerged from under its clothes. It exuded an aura of majesty, recklessness, and tyranny. Hobert even had the illusion of facing a high-sequence Beyonder.
He said, "I'll deal with this 'octopus,' you deal with the other two."
Without waiting for the other two to reply, Hobert had already thrown a 'Rampage' over. Originally, this was just a corpse, and the 'Sailor' pathway was famously fond of getting angry. Coupled with the 'Rampager' state, it directly caused the only bit of intelligence it had to disappear!
The rapier in Hobert's hand turned into a two-handed greatsword, and he split the opponent in half with one sword.
Because of the characteristics of this sword, the corpse with many tentacles only struggled for a moment, and those tentacles instantly contracted, turning into a real corpse that had been cut in half.
Hobert stepped forward and, sure enough, found the 'Tyrant' card on the corpse!
Without time to look closely, Hobert went to accelerate the extraction of the corpse's Beyonder characteristics.
By the time Klein over there had solved the corpse covered with eyes, and Alger had solved the corpse that had finally put its head back on and was flowing with dark green pus...
They saw that the 'Emperor' was already using a two-handed greatsword to pry open the other stone coffins. The coffin lids were pried open, and the corpses inside fled in a panic in the opposite direction of the 'Emperor.'
The 'Emperor' casually cut the corpse in half with one sword: "Just a Sequence 6, what the hell are you running for!"
Then the 'Emperor' held his sword and went to pry open another coffin: "Hopefully there's a Sequence 5 inside."
Klein twitched his lips. Why did this originally so strange exploration action suddenly seem like the style of painting had changed, giving it a sense of opening a blind box?
Before that coffin could be pried open, the three of them simultaneously heard a long sigh: "Alas..."
This sigh came from the depths of the burial hall, carrying an unspeakable sense of vicissitudes.
The muscles on the backs of the three of them tightened at the same time. Without hesitation, Hobert 'distorted' the distance and appeared next to Klein and Alger, supporting their shoulders.
The space in front of them suddenly became illusory, but none of the three of them entered the spirit world, because they saw a spirit world creature with skin like a grouper and a lantern-like structure on its head, which happened to appear in the spirit world space in front of them.
The spirituality of the three of them almost simultaneously sensed that this spirit world creature was difficult to deal with.
Hobert simply withdrew his spirituality from the 'Traveler's Knife' and politely bowed in the direction of the sigh: "I'm very sorry to have disturbed you. Thank you for your gift!"
Alger, who had experience exploring with the 'Emperor,' also quickly bowed in that direction.
Klein was slightly stunned. Were they all so polite? Who was just prying open the coffins here with a two-handed greatsword?
From the depths of the burial hall, a very pleasant and magnetic voice said, "I know very well that the two of them will come here sooner or later, but why did you come here?"
The spirituality of the three of them did not sense any abnormalities in the burial hall, nor did they sense the presence of anyone, as if a cloud of air was speaking just now.
Hobert smiled helplessly: Didn't follow your script? This can only show that your script is not good!
He seemed to know who he was communicating with, but also seemed not to. However, he had made corresponding preparations in the afternoon, sealing many memories and preparing contingency plans for the current situation.
So, Hobert calmly said, "I'm here to confirm something."
At the same time, he injected his spirituality into the mask, forming a protective layer, otherwise he would have no secrets in front of the other party.
"What is it?"
Hobert pointed to the drawings on the ground.
"After confirming this, what does the 'Creator' intend to do?"
Klein and Alger originally thought it might be a special Beyonder creature, but now they knew this guess was far-fetched. The other party actually knew about the 'Creator'! So, was this a high level Beyonder?
Klein also noticed that Hobert rarely used the honorific reserved for deities which proved that the other party should be a big shot.
Neither of them spoke, believing that it was best to leave this matter to the "Emperor" to handle.
Hobert said, "At least on this matter, the 'Creator' will stand on your side."
The other party was silent for a few seconds, then said, "Answer two questions, and I'll let you leave."
Hobert breathed a sigh of relief and gestured for them to speak.
The other party asked, "Is the 'Creator' an incarnation of the 'Uncertain Mist'?"
Hobert smiled, "How could I possibly know such a thing?"
"Based on my observation of your expression, you know very well."
I'm wearing a mask, what can you see! But then, Hobert sighed helplessly, "No."
"Very good." The other party said, "Then, is He a Sefirah with living characteristics?"
"No."
The other party paused for a few seconds.
Hobert was very nervous, knowing that the other party was weighing whether it was worth breaking through the barrier created by the 'Order Crystal' to dig out all the secrets in his mind.
He didn't expect things to develop to this point. He remembered that this expedition should have been very safe.
But soon, Hobert prepared himself to go all out. He meditated, stopping all inner activities to avoid exposing more secrets.
Only seven or eight seconds passed, but Hobert felt like it had been a very long time.
Finally, the other party sighed again and said, "You may leave."
Without saying a word, Hobert supported Klein and Alger's shoulders. The space in front of them became illusory again. The spirit world creature that looked difficult to deal with just happened to have left.
The three of them entered the spirit world together, but soon, they came out of the spirit world again.
They were now in mid-air, with the island below them.
The mist that had enveloped the primitive island was rapidly dissipating. They saw that the island was gone!
The primitive island, inhabited by many demigod-level Beyonder creatures, was gone!
The area where it had been located, the deep blue sea gently swayed, without any anomalies!
Hobert used his "Exploit" ability to end the Traveler's Knife's "Travel" cooldown early. They entered the spirit world again and quickly appeared on a deserted beach on Blue Mountain Island, where Bayam was located.
The three of them first sighed in unison, taking a few minutes to recover from the shock. Then, Hobert opened his leather bag and took out the black-haired baboon that Klein had killed, and the psychedelic wind chime tree from which Alger had picked the fruit.
As for the corpses of the demigod-level curly-haired baboon and the feathered serpent, Hobert simply didn't take them out. After all, they were his own hunted prey.
The three of them gathered the spoils they had temporarily kept, including 3 Beyonder characteristics of Sequence 5 level, 3 of Sequence 6 level, 3 of Sequence 7 level, the core crystal and eyes of the six-winged gargoyle, and the "Tyrant" card.
Hobert first handed the Beyonder characteristic formed by the black-haired baboon to Klein, as it was his prey. Then, he said, "I helped bring back the corpse of the black-haired baboon and the psychedelic wind chime tree. According to the conventions of the extraordinary world, I have to charge a certain fee.
"If you sell them to me, I will buy them at 80% of the market price. That 20% will be my share.
"If you plan to sell them to others, I will take 30% of the proceeds."
Klein said, "Name your price."
Hobert said, "After an 80% discount, the corpse of the curly-haired baboon is 3500 pounds, and the psychedelic wind chime tree is 3000 pounds!"
These spiritual materials are worth far more than this price, but the general purchase price is this much, because the loss problem has to be considered. In at most a year and a half, the spirituality of these materials will weaken a lot, or even fall below the level of usability, and then they will be useless.
Hobert didn't have to worry about this, so he added a little to the market price.
Klein and Alger both realized that the "Emperor" was buying at a price slightly higher than the market price, and after expressing their gratitude, they sold the corpse of the black-haired baboon and the psychedelic wind chime tree to Hobert.
Then they divided the other spoils. Klein and Alger both said that one of the Sequence 6 Beyonder characteristics and the related gains from the six-winged gargoyle should belong to the "Emperor."
Especially the Sequence 6 Beyonder characteristic obtained from the burial hall, which was obtained by the "Emperor" himself prying open the coffin.
Hobert didn't intend to take this small advantage, so the Sequence 6 Beyonder characteristic and the two Beyonder ingredients were also added to the common division.
The order of selection was based on the contributions made, the first of course was Hobert, the second was Klein, and Alger was last.
Hobert of course chose the "Tyrant" card, Klein chose a Sequence 5 Beyonder characteristic, and Alger said, "Can I use this opportunity to exchange for a Sequence 4 potion formula?"
Hobert pondered for a moment, "Perhaps there's no need to waste this selection opportunity. I can provide it to you when you need it, and you help me complete two things.
"These two things will both be within your ability, and the total value will not exceed the value of a Sequence 4 potion formula."
Alger thought for a while, "Okay."
He remembered that the "Emperor" also had a similar deal with "The Moon," but now "The Moon" didn't seem to have received the first task yet, but had obtained the opportunity to advance to Sequence 5 first, which was obviously a benefit provided by the "Emperor."
So Alger also chose a Sequence 5 level Beyonder characteristic.
In the second round of selection, Hobert chose the last Sequence 5 level Beyonder characteristic, Klein chose the core crystal of the six-winged gargoyle, and Alger chose the Sequence 6 Beyonder characteristic.
The next two divisions were from the corpses controlled by the feathered serpent, the two Sequence 6 Beyonder characteristics and one Sequence 7 Beyonder characteristic obtained, as well as the pair of six-winged gargoyle eyes.
After the division, Hobert smiled and said, "If you don't find suitable buyers for the spoils of this exploration, you can sell them to me at tomorrow's gathering."
Klein and Alger nodded together, and Klein said, "Well then, it's been a pleasure working with you!"
After saying that, he left first.
Hobert asked Alger, "Shall I send you back to Bayam?"
"Thank you." Alger smiled and said, "But I want to walk around by myself."
Today's harvest was not small. After tomorrow's gathering, his savings would definitely exceed 10,000 pounds!
This was a happy thing, and he wanted to be happy alone for a while.
Alger extended an invitation, "Want to take a walk together?"
Hobert was slightly stunned, but then smiled and said, "Of course."
The waves gently lapped against the beach, and in the pale red moonlight, small animals such as crabs scurried across the sand from time to time.
"It's so fast." Alger said with emotion, "I'm already an 'Ocean Songster' now."
The first time they met, Alger was only a Sequence 7.
Hobert seemed to guess what the other party intended, so he followed up with emotion, "Time is like the scenes of falling flowers and flowing water, once gone, never to return."
Alger was slightly stunned, thinking: People who have been to university are different, these two metaphors are very appropriate.
He followed up on this topic and said, "In the blink of an eye, I've reached the point of preparing to advance to Sequence 4."
Alger got to the point: "If the time is right, I would like to ask you to help me explore a ruin together, which is the last of the three coordinates I found before."
Hobert nodded, "No problem."
He smiled and said, "I quite like exploring ruins."
Having obtained the "Emperor's" promise, Alger felt that half of his action to advance to a demigod had already succeeded.
The two chatted for a few more words, and Hobert used "Travel" to leave.
Alger stared at the sea under the moonlight for a while, and then a feeling of joy filled his heart again.
First of all, today's exploration was very successful. Although he got the least amount of spoils, he was already very satisfied.
Secondly, Alger felt for the first time that he was so close to the level of a demigod. Even though he was already Sequence 5 now, before today, the level of a demigod still seemed very far away from him.
But tonight, he had the potion formula, and there were important clues about Beyonder characteristics!
He smiled slightly and continued to stroll on the beach.
...
Hobert returned to the Earl's mansion in Backlund, took out a bottle of good wine from the wine cabinet in the bedroom, and two glasses.
Just as he filled the glasses, Hobert heard a knock on the door: "Please come in."
The bedroom door opened, and Klein, with a scholarly temperament, pushed the door in: "Sorry to bother you so late."
Hobert picked up a glass of wine and pointed to the other glass: "Shouldn't we celebrate first?"
Klein picked up the glass: "You knew I was coming?"
"No, I just saw that you seem to need this very much." As he spoke, he took the "Tyrant" card out of his pocket.
The first time Klein saw this card, his spirituality realized that it was a "Blasphemy Card", and if used in conjunction with his "Sea God Scepter", it could produce good results.
It could even temporarily suppress the negative effects of the "Sea God Scepter", and it might be possible for him to bring the "Sea God Scepter" into the real world when he summoned himself again.
He asked directly: "What compensation do I have to pay to get this card?"
Hobert smiled and said, "I can't make the decision on this yet. I'll give you an answer after I ask about it."
He was actually prevaricating, wanting to take this "Blasphemy Card" to the "Nation of Disorder" first to see how useful it was to him. If it wasn't very useful, he would consider trading with Klein.
Hobert paused and then said, "However, if you need it, I still have the authority to lend it to you temporarily."
Klein thanked him, then drank the wine in his glass and prepared to leave.
"Wait a minute." Hobert smiled and said, "Do you remember the invitation I sent out before I acted? A tourism festival will be held in Feynapotter in a few days. Are you interested in taking a break?"
Klein was slightly stunned: "Tourism festival?"
"Yes," Hobert finally found an opportunity to explain: "This is a concept mentioned in a draft that Roselle the Great did not make public."
Klein suddenly asked: "Was the light bulb also mentioned in the draft?"
Hobert began to show off his acting skills again, revealing a hint of surprise: "How do you know… Oh, right, Mr. Fool can understand Roselle's diary."
So he "frankly" explained: "Actually, that's a draft, with many novel ideas for inventions, such as light bulbs. Roselle the Great proposed the idea of using it for lighting, but the material of the filament was not good enough before, and the service life was not long enough.
"At the same time, there are many new concepts in the gaps in the draft, such as the commercial concept of the tourism festival I mentioned earlier."
Klein was different from Fors. If he had to expose the fact that he was a transmigrator in the future, when Klein asked why he was lying to him at this time, he could say that this was a kind of protection for himself, after all, Klein had not actively announced that he was a transmigrator.
Klein nodded thoughtfully. He did remember Roselle mentioning in his diary that because there was no oil, many of his ideas were difficult to realize. It was possible that he had recorded some of his "creative ideas" and Hobert had seen them, and because of the technological progress of the past hundred years, some of them could be realized.
Before this, when he heard Hobert mention the use of light bulbs, Klein had suspected that the "Creator" might also be a transmigrator? Or was Hobert also a transmigrator?
But today, after hearing Hobert say this, Klein understood that this was the case.
Then he asked as if casually: "Where did you get that draft? I'm quite interested in such new concepts. Can I borrow it?"
Hobert didn't answer directly, but just smiled and said: "I remember saying before that Roselle became the 'Black Emperor', so we have some information and materials that are not available to the outside world.
"That information is top secret. If you want to borrow it, you need to pay a considerable price."
"Then let's talk about it later." Klein smiled.
For him, those might all be common sense things. If he paid a considerable price in exchange for some knowledge like "Postpartum Care of Sows", it would be really not worth it.
"If it doesn't conflict with my time, I will participate in the tourism festival." Klein smiled and said: "By the way, there is one more thing. I have decided to sneak into St. Samuel Cathedral to obtain clues about the relevant potion formula.
"If you really have a good way to hide yourself, we can act together."
Hobert smiled slightly and suddenly turned into a pool of flesh and blood, flowing into the liquor cabinet.
After disappearing from Klein's sight, his spirituality completely lost track of Hobert!
Soon, Hobert flowed out of the liquor cabinet again: "How is it?"
Klein nodded: "I'll plan how to infiltrate the church, and I'll contact you if I need your help."
"Okay."
Watching Klein leave with "Travel", Hobert thoughtfully opened the notebook on his desk, which contained simple tips for offering sacrifices to the "Creator" and entering the "Nation of Disorder".
These were all preparations made to "avoid Adam". Hobert waited for another ten minutes or so, in case the other party forgot to explain something just now.
After confirming that Klein would not suddenly return, Hobert sacrificed all of tonight's gains to the "Nation of Disorder".
Sitting on the "Iron Throne", Hobert's head seemed to explode, and all the memories left in the "Nation of Disorder" "returned".
It took him more than half a minute to recover before Hobert began to deal with the spoils.
First, he took the "Tyrant" card. This card had already been activated. The outermost layer was Roselle, raising his hands and wearing a triple crown. Before him were kneeling believers, and behind him were lightning, dark clouds, storms, and waves!
Then Hobert opened the "Blasphemy Card", which looked like a booklet. Each page contained an image of Roselle, either dressed as a sailor, or wearing a captain's hat, holding a sextant, or singing in the background of the sea.
Looking all the way down, the last one was Sequence 0: Tyrant.
The promotion ritual is: you need hundreds of thousands of followers who obey and believe out of fear. Secondly, challenge a True God alone and survive. Finally, take the potion in an atmosphere of fear and obedience.
Hobert smiled: This ritual seems simpler than the "Black Emperor"'s promotion ritual.
Then, he wrapped the "Tyrant" card with his spiritual body and tried to mobilize the power of the "Nation of Disorder".
Hobert felt that although this "Blasphemy Card" had also correspondingly improved the rank of his spiritual body, it was not as smooth as the "Black Emperor" card when mobilizing the power of the "Nation of Disorder".
If he used this to enter the real world, he could also emit a majestic and frightening aura, and might also have the empty shell of an King of Angels, but the abilities he could use were far less abundant than the "Black Emperor" card.
This is a bit of a tasteless thing. It may only be used in specific situations, just like the "Red Priest" card that has been lying there gathering dust. The greatest use may be to provide a complete potion pathway.
It might be possible to trade it with Klein.
As for what to trade, Hobert recalled that "Mr. Fool" currently has nothing that could interest the "Creator".
Finally, he wondered if he could exchange "Hounds of Fulgrim Eyes" with Klein in the future to allow Archibald to be promoted to "Scholar of Yore"?
If he had an "Scholar of Yore" as a subordinate, it would be very convenient in many things.
But there are two prerequisites: first, Archibald must show enough loyalty, and second, Hobert himself must be promoted to Sequence 2 before he is sure that he can recover the other party's Beyonder characteristics at any time to avoid working in vain.
In addition, after Klein becomes a demigod, he may need his or the Fool's help.
But the probability of this is not high. After all, Hobert can now mobilize several demigods, and most of the problems that demigods cannot solve are currently difficult for "The Fool" to solve, so it is better for the "Creator" to take action.
Finally, Hobert believed that he could first give Klein the use of it in the form of a lease, and then pay it all at once when he wanted to get some reward, or pay once per lease.
There's no rush for this, we can talk about it later. Hobert looked at the second biggest gain of this operation, the Sealed Artifact that looked like a green jade.
Hobert held it in his hand and used the high rank of the "Nation of Disorder" to feel what was different about this Sealed Artifact.
After spirituality wrapped around the other party and established a certain connection, a huge inverted pyramid appeared in front of Hobert. In the pyramid were many corpses covered in pale yellow oil stains.
Deep in the pyramid-shaped mausoleum, there was a thick fog, and there seemed to be a very terrifying figure in the fog. It seemed to be the most terrifying thing in the world.
Hobert couldn't see what it was, but his heart was uncontrollably trembling and filled with fear from the bottom of his heart.
It was as if that was fear itself!
Withdrawing his spirituality, Hobert wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, slightly trembling, and put down the Sealed Artifact, and immediately had a guess: that is the "Artificial Death"!
No wonder "1-109" would refuse to "graze". It turns out that the Feathered Serpent has a close connection with the "Artificial Death"! Perhaps it is also a byproduct of the "Artificial Death" plan?
In short, as long as the Feathered Serpent is grazed, "1-109" will inevitably move closer to the "Underworld" and may eventually disappear completely in the "Kingdom of the Death God" and become a plaything of the undead.
If Hobert uses the Feathered Serpent's abilities through "1-109", it will be similar to being marked by the "Artificial Death" and will often be attacked by powerful underworld creatures.
Hobert went to hold the jade tablet-like Sealed Artifact again. If he just held it, he wouldn't feel the fear from the bottom of his heart.
Then he realized that even if he crushed it into Beyonder characteristics, he couldn't use it. That was just equivalent to dispersing the mark of the "Artificial Death".
It may have to wait until the "Artificial Death" is solved by the Evernight Goddess before it can be used as a normal Beyonder characteristic.
So before that, it can only be used as a Sealed Artifact, and as Hobert expected, as long as it is used once, it will be marked by "fear itself", or the uniqueness of the "Death God" pathway at present.
Then it will inevitably move closer to the "Artificial Death", not a close approach in the real sense, but a close approach in the sense of mysticism. Feathers with pale yellow oil stains will grow on the body, and dreams will appear in the pyramid, and will eventually come to the end of life early, and the body will be taken to that inverted mausoleum by unknown underworld forces.
In the end, whether it is the corpse or the soul, it will forever become a servant of the "Artificial Death".
Hobert mobilized the power of the "Nation of Disorder" to try to seal it, and finally got the opportunity to use it safely for 3 minutes. After using it for 3 minutes, he had to rest for 6 hours, otherwise any spiritual contact with the Sealed Artifact would be marked by the "Artificial Death".
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