Lord of the Mysteries: The New Black Emperor

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After checking the abilities of the two Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts, Hobert named them "0-73" Death Domain and "0-74" Fallen Mask respectively.

Seeing that there were as many as five Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts, Hobert took a deep breath, and a smile unconsciously bloomed on his face.

But then He noticed that these five Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts were all corresponding to Sequence 2 characteristics of different pathways. Currently, the only Sealed Artifact at the Sequence 1 level that Hobert had seen was the gavel that Trunsoest had fused with.

Hobert thought along these lines: Now that I think about it, Sealed Artifacts with Sequence 1 levels are either "Wild Sealed Artifacts" hiding somewhere, and it is difficult for the Church's power to seal them without the gods taking action; or they are used for transactions at the level of gods, and then shattered for use, or simply held by the gods.

Then He thought: In fact, the Sequence 1 characteristics of each pathway are numbered. The seven gods have already occupied all the Sequence 1 of the seven pathways, and there are also the "Devil Monarch" Farbauti, the True Creator, the Primordial Demoness, and Mr. "Door" and Adam. No matter what their state is, there are three copies of Sequence 1 in their pathways.

Of the remaining 10 pathways, some are more obvious. For example, the Sequence 1 characteristics of the "Error" pathway, two copies are with Amon, and one copy is with Old Man Pallez Zoroast in Leonard's body. Another example is the "Monster" pathway, two Sequence 1 items are with Ouroboros, and one is with Will Auceptin, the president of the "Life School of Thought".

Some Sequence 1 can also be known where they are with a little speculation. For example, the Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics of the "Prisoner" pathway, one is with Farbauti, one is with the "Chained God", and one is with the "Abomination" Suah.

Only a few pathways' Sequence 1 characteristics are unknown where they are. For example, the "Mystery Pryer" pathway, Roselle once held and became the "Knowledge Emperor". After his fall, a copy of the "Mystery Pryer" pathway's Sequence 1 characteristic should be in the Church of Steam and Machinery or the Church of Eternal Blazing Sun. The remaining two copies are unknown, maybe with the "Hidden Sage", maybe they are "Wild Sealed Artifacts".

After simply pondering this question, Hobert stretched and returned to the real world to rest. He had a serious lunch at noon and returned to his bedroom for a nap.

In fact, eating and sleeping are no longer of great significance to Hobert, but recently there have been too many things, and He feels a little mentally tired, so He uses eating and sleeping to give himself a certain psychological suggestion to restore his mental state.

Just as He lay down on the bed, Hobert noticed that the power of the "Nation of Disorder" beside him was a little disturbed. He quickly entered the "Nation of Disorder", but found nothing wrong here.

Just as He was about to leave the "Nation of Disorder", Hobert suddenly realized something. He immediately lifted the seal of Uniqueness and put the crown on his head.

Then Hobert "connected" with the source of the power disturbance in the "Nation of Disorder". Sure enough, in the pool in front of the "Iron Throne", He saw Erebus performing a grand sacrificial ritual on an island in the Fog Sea.

The reason why Hobert felt it was "grand" was because there were a large number of brutally killed slaves, pirates, and ordinary people captured from nowhere around the altar.

Blood formed a red stream, and the dug-out hearts were piled into a small hill.

Using so many lives as the price is just to get in touch with the "Uncertain Mist" in the cosmos and then sacrifice the small ball of light on the altar.

That was a Beyonder characteristic of the "Prince of Abolition", which was the one that Hobert had marked before.

Obviously, Erebus couldn't handle it himself, so he had to sacrifice it to his main body, the "Uncertain Mist".

Hobert sneered, took the "0-73" Death Domain he had just obtained, and projected surging power towards the island.

Tens of thousands of corpses around the altar seemed to have received a unified order, and suddenly sat up. They scrambled to go to the altar to retrieve their hearts.

The ritual was interfered with by the living dead, and the channel that had been so hard to establish became very unstable.

Erebus, who was chanting the sacrificial text, looked into the air and suddenly showed a weird smile: "I knew you would notice this sacrifice, so I was prepared.

"Sorry, you're one step late."

At this time, the Beyonder characteristic on the altar suddenly floated up and slowly rose.

Hobert mobilized surging power and formed a black cube around the Beyonder characteristic, temporarily imprisoning it.

Then Hobert waved at Erebus and used the ability to "distort" space to throw Him into the magma deep underground.

At the same time, the strange pull on the "Prince of Abolition" characteristic still existed. The cube made by Hobert floated upward together with the characteristic.

Hobert immediately realized that with his control over the "Nation of Disorder", it was still difficult to compete with the "Uncertain Mist".

He immediately got up, came to the clock hall next to him, and pushed the clock hammer to hit the bronze clock.

Dong~

The dull bell made the "Prince of Abolition" characteristic stagnate. For the real world, the power of the Outer Gods is the source of "disorder". The bell of the "Bell of Order" can level the power of the Outer Gods in the real world.

But in the cosmos, this trick doesn't work well, because coldness, chaos, and distortion are the order of the cosmos. The power of the "Bell of Order" is easily diluted by the vast space.

At the same time as the bell rang, a hand covered in magma suddenly stretched out from the ground in front of the altar. Erebus crawled out of the ground.

"Puff", He first spit the magma in his mouth on the ground, and the magma immediately cooled and turned into a soft stone.

He looked into the air, where there was an ancient and sacred bronze clock, and a figure wearing a gorgeous crown was pushing the clock hammer.

Dong~

The long bell echoed on the island. The corpses grabbing the heart fell down one after another. The order of the corpses was to lose all vitality, instead of scrambling to grab the heart that was no longer beating.

The air on the island seemed to be filled with the taste of order. Erebus felt the rejection of the real world towards Him, because His existence deviated from the order of the real world.

"Bell of Order!" Erebus looked at the air with some longing.

At this time, the power of the "Uncertain Mist" in the real world was leveled, and the Beyonder characteristic fell back on the altar.

Hobert beckoned towards the characteristic, and the power of the "Nation of Disorder" inside it seemed to be inspired, and floated towards the direction of the "Bell of Order".

Erebus immediately jumped up to grab it, but no matter how hard He tried, He was a little bit away from the Beyonder characteristic.

"Come back! Come back!" Erebus shouted helplessly!

The next second, the Beyonder characteristic of the "Prince of Abolition" appeared in Hobert's hands.

Then, Hobert looked at Erebus and made a fist gesture.

Whoosh~

A strange gust of wind blew on the small island away from the mainland. The wind speed was so fast that there was even a "boom" sound.

Erebus looked painful and stood still.

The gust of wind just now was actually Hobert compressing the air of the entire island to the surroundings of Erebus in an instant, forming a dense "air cage".

Erebus wanted to use His extraordinary power to escape, but found that all the rules and order around Him seemed to be shouting: "Compression! Compression!", His "distortion" and "tampering" were instantly replaced by compression.

This made Erebus's eyes condense, thinking of the crown on Hobert's head, this is the power of Uniqueness!

At the same time, He was very strange, what exactly was Hobert going to do? Did he want to crush Himself to death?

Then this hypocritical "Creator" is too naive, He is now an angel rank, can he be crushed to death?

At this time, a layer of somewhat illusory transparent gas appeared around Erebus. It was not any mystical effect, but the reaction of oxygen and hydrogen molecules under enormous pressure.

From the previous complete transparency, it became a little textured.

Crack~

Erebus heard the sound of His sternum breaking, and His chest and abdomen were immediately crushed, and all the internal organs were squeezed out, and soon became small stones under great pressure.

Erebus sneered in His heart, not breathing, and blood not circulating, can't kill an angel.

Crack~

Erebus heard the sound of His skull being crushed. As the pressure increased, Erebus was quickly flattened.

At this time, the physical pain of Erebus did not bring Him much impact. His consciousness was still very clear.

It's just that Erebus, who still couldn't escape, began to feel a little uneasy, because He didn't know what Hobert was going to do.

As Erebus was quickly compressed to the size of a fingernail, His outside was completely covered by a layer of gas that looked textured, until the gas was compressed to the size of a basketball, it became transparent again, but their volume was still shrinking rapidly.

It's so hot~ Even the remaining consciousness feels hot and can't breathe!

Ah, I can't stand it anymore, it's so hot! It's so hot!

At this time, Erebus's position began to glow and heat up, and the temperature instantly became so high that the surrounding trees were lit and the rocks turned into lime.

Erebus and those gases have become a point. Under enough high pressure and high temperature, finally, the process of nuclear fusion began.

At this time, Erebus, who was tortured by high temperature and high pressure, felt that He was being passed through by countless light spots. Those light spots were like small knives, constantly cutting His spirit body!

For a moment, Erebus felt that the entire universe was quiet.

But in the next moment, high temperature and unprecedented light covered all His inspiration.

Hobert, who was in the air, saw that the strong light and high temperature of the nuclear explosion ignited most of the vegetation on the island, and then the huge shock wave swept the entire island with a violent explosion.

The explosion shook the entire island, and the subsequent impact of the shock wave on the surrounding air caused the dust and smoke raised during the explosion to form a huge mushroom cloud over the island.

Hobert curled the corners of his mouth and showed a smile.

While taking off the Uniqueness and resealing it, He sighed: It probably took 15 seconds just now. I used Uniqueness to pinch a small nuclear bomb. If I completely contain Uniqueness in the future, it is estimated that I can pinch a nuclear bomb of the same equivalent in eight or nine seconds.

But if it is the Sequence 2 level, it will take at least one or two minutes to complete a similar thing.

At the same time, Hobert used Spirituality to cover the entire island, looking for Erebus.

Finally, in the dust and smoke, Hobert found Erebus in a very strange state.

After confirming that the other party was difficult to escape, Hobert returned to the real world and came to the island that had just experienced a nuclear explosion through the spirit world.

At this time, the entire island was still completely covered by dust and smoke. The high mushroom cloud had disappeared, but the formed smoke went straight into the sky.

Hobert raised his hand and used the ability to "tamper". The dust and smoke in front of him separated by themselves, forming a cave in the dust blocking his sight.

All the plants on the island have become charcoal and dust, and some are still burning, providing a steady stream of heat to the nuclear dust floating into the sky.

Finally, Hobert found Erebus, whose head was floating in the air.

His body below the neck was trying to take shape, but just as He was about to form a new body, He became illusory again and disappeared into the void.

Seeing Hobert, Erebus asked: "What exactly did you do?"

His head kept shaking every time He said a word, and a wisp of dust was scattered.

This made His head look like it was made of a pile of dust, and it would scatter around at any time.

Hobert thought for a while with his chin pinched before saying: "Although I am not a physicist, I can probably give you an explanation.

"Among the atoms that make up your body, many atomic nuclei have gathered together in the nuclear reaction just now to form heavier elements, which leads to the collapse of atoms and cannot exert microscopic electromagnetic force and strong nuclear force.

"That is the force that restricts microscopic particles such as neutrons, protons, and electrons, so your body is falling apart, and it is falling apart from a microscopic perspective."

Hobert looked at Erebus in front of him, as if looking at a very interesting test product: "Look, this is the product of the combination of extraordinary and science.

"If you were an ordinary person, you would have been crushed to death at the beginning, but because you have the level of an angel, both the spirit body and the body have undergone qualitative changes, so you can still talk to me here."

Erebus pondered for a while before asking: "That is to say, my body can't be reorganized, right?"

Hobert smiled: "Some of my previous experiments have shown that Beyonder powers must also follow the rules of this universe. Unless it is a true god, you can't reorganize so easily."

Then He asked: "How is your spirit body now? What was the reaction of the spirit body at the moment of the explosion?"

Erebus glanced at Hobert and replied: "I felt very hot, and I felt like I was being cut by thousands of small knives. My spirit body is relatively special, so it was reorganized after that. If it were an ordinary angel, the spirit body would probably be severely damaged."

Hobert pondered for a while before explaining to Erebus, as if talking to himself: "The nuclear explosion process will produce high-intensity nuclear electromagnetic pulse, which will have a huge impact on most signals.

"And I heard a hypothesis that the spirit body is actually a complex signal source, and it is likely that it was the electromagnetic pulse that impacted your spirit body."

Erebus didn't understand what an electromagnetic pulse was, and He simply didn't bother to understand: "Let's cooperate!"

Hobert thought he had misheard: "Cooperate?"

"Yes, I will help you catch Trunsoest and Tamara, so you won't have any competitors."

Hobert laughed: "Trunsoest is indeed a bit of a headache. Tamara no longer poses any threat to me now."

Erebus grinned: "Actually, there's another purpose for my prayer to my main body this time: to use the authority of the main body to help Tamara advance!"

Hobert was stunned and immediately realized: "Tamara has advanced to 'Prince of Abolition'?"

When George III had just fallen, Erebus seized a 'Prince of Abolition'. Hobert didn't expect that Erebus would give that to Tamara.

Immediately afterward, Hobert vaguely guessed that Erebus might not be able to continue advancing after 'devouring' the 'Duke of Entropy' characteristics before.

"Yes." Erebus revealed a smug smile: "Because I didn't have time to prepare the ritual, I thought of using this method to advance.

"The blessing and help of the Outer Deities can replace the ritual at the Angel level. Well, you can also use this method and are always welcome to pray to my main body for help."

Hobert almost gave Him the middle finger: "This is the most vicious curse I've heard this year."

Erebus ignored Hobert's teasing and continued the previous topic: "How about it? Are you interested in our cooperation?"

Without waiting for Hobert to answer, He continued: "Sequence 2 level enemies are indeed not a threat to you, but Sequence 1 level enemies are different. Even if you get the Uniqueness and two Sequence 1 characteristics, it is difficult to catch Sequence 1 of the same pathway.

"If Tamara cooperates with Trunsoest, you will be very dangerous before you become the King of Angels."

Hobert looked at the head in front of him, distorted his eyebrows and asked, "What are your conditions?"

"When you become a Great Old One, give the 'Hand of Order' from Trunsoest and the 'Prince of Abolition' from Tamara to my main body."

Hobert smiled: "Then forget it. In my opinion, Trunsoest will not cooperate with Tamara."

Erebus quickly said: "It's okay to just give me the 'Prince of Abolition' characteristics, but help me retrieve the glass bottle that Amon snatched away."

Hobert was about to refuse again, but the words came to his lips and then turned to ask: "Why did Amon snatch that thin-necked glass bottle?"

"I don't know what He is going to do specifically, but my spirituality tells me that the research He is doing is very, very dangerous!" Erebus said solemnly.

Hobert smiled: "Then you still notified Amon's avatar about my advancement?"

Erebus was suddenly a little dumbfounded: "Of course I won't tell Him. I won't trust any Beyonders of the 'Error' pathway and two adjacent pathways.

"Who knows where this guy heard about it? He came up and snatched my glass bottle!"

Otherwise, He wouldn't have to risk 'devouring' the Sequence 2 level Beyonder characteristics. Moreover, even if Hobert used the power of the 'Nation of Disorder' to pollute the 'Prince of Abolition' characteristics snatched back from Antas City, He could use the power of the main body stored in the glass bottle to eliminate the corruption of the characteristics.

Hobert nodded slightly: "Research that is very dangerous to Outer Gods, then I should support it! Sorry, I can't cooperate with you."

"You..." Erebus was suddenly a little speechless. He paused for a few seconds before saying again: "If it's dangerous to Outer Gods, wouldn't the danger to you be even greater!"

Hobert also suddenly said seriously: "When we first met, we were destined not to be able to cooperate."

He suddenly raised his hand and "tampered" with the microscopic strong nuclear force on Erebus's head, which made Erebus's head become solid again.

Immediately afterward, Hobert used the ability of "Exploit" to accelerate the condensation of Erebus's Beyonder characteristics.

As He expected, the Beyonder characteristics began to condense from Erebus's shattered body and quickly took shape.

Hobert looked at this 'Duke of Entropy' Beyonder characteristic and thought to himself thoughtfully: "Originally, I had imagined that the essence of Beyonder characteristics was a substance with special radiation.

"So it causes certain mutations in the human body, so that it can Exploit the essence of the universe to a certain extent and use Beyonder abilities.

"Now it seems that this substance is very special and can violate many physical laws... Ah... this idea is fundamentally wrong.

"Maybe this is not a substance that humans can understand, or it exceeds people's imagination. After all, human perception of the outside world is very limited, and those physical laws are summarized from a human perspective and cannot explain Beyonder characteristics at all."

Finally, He seemed to make a phrase-like statement: "This is mysticism!"

Then Hobert looked at Erebus: "The Outer Deities are indeed lives that are difficult for ordinary people to understand. Just an avatar, even if the Beyonder characteristics are gone, it hasn't died yet."

Erebus twitched his lips. He felt that he was turning into a ghost, because of His special nature, this process was indeed much slower than that of a normal angel.

Hobert put away the Beyonder characteristics, grabbed Erebus's head, "distorted" the space and entered the spirit world.

When he returned to the real world, Hobert came to a cemetery in the suburbs of Tingen. According to the guidance of spirituality, He found Selena's tombstone.

There were two bunches of withered flowers in front of the tombstone, and some weeds had grown around the tombstone and the grave.

With a wave of Hobert's hand, these weeds were pulled out by a virtual and distorted force and floated into the distance.

Then He put Erebus's head upright in front of Selena's tombstone: "Teacher keeps his word and brought this guy's head."

Erebus had just seen the name on the tombstone, and He asked somewhat uncertainly: "Does Selena have an unknown identity?"

"No."

Erebus asked again: "Is she your lover?"

"No."

"Then why?" Erebus asked with a puzzled look: "Why would you refuse to cooperate with me for an ordinary person?"

Hobert looked at the head in front of him with a cold face: "You will never learn the bonds between people. This is the most pathetic thing about you."

Speaking of this, Hobert suddenly felt a tingling in the back of his head, and a muffled thunder-like roar seemed to suddenly appear in his mind.

At this moment, Hobert underwent a significant change. His expression became more delicate, his body movements were no longer so stiff, and he seemed to have become a different person all of a sudden.

In the next moment, Hobert realized that just now, his humanity had defeated his divinity, which allowed Him to truly find himself, instead of just a cold soul playing Hobert.

Hobert showed a relieved expression and said to Selena's tombstone: "Thank you."

Erebus was about to say something when Hobert stepped on His head and crushed it, while stopping the maintenance of the microscopic level of power, and this head scattered into a pile of flesh-colored dust.

"Oh, right!" Hobert seemed to suddenly remember something and took out "0-73" Death Domain from the "Nation of Disorder".

The surrounding space immediately became dark, placing Hobert at the junction of the real world and the underworld.

As He expected, Erebus's spirit body already had some characteristics of a ghost and was resisting the power of the underworld, trying to continue to stay in the real world and completely become a ghost.

Hobert used "0-73" to open a door in the underworld. Erebus no longer struggled, because after entering the spirit world, He could still become a ghost, but the probability of re-devouring Beyonder characteristics was very, very small.

But to Erebus's surprise, several powerful ghosts came out of the spirit world and tore at Erebus's spirit body.

"No!" Erebus's spirit body was quickly torn apart and devoured by several ghosts, completely dissipating at the junction of the underworld and the real world.

Hobert drove those ghosts back to the underworld and closed the "Underworld Gate". He looked at Selena's tombstone, pursed his lips and said: "There is a saying in my hometown: Help people to the end, send the Buddha to the west.

"On the matter of sending people to the west, it must be done thoroughly."

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