Mystery: Emerging From Knowledge Moor

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Leyton, rarely questioning why, suppressed the fear welling up in his heart and quickly stepped forward, preparing to pull out the Sanguine that the crow on his shoulder had mentioned.

Head lowered, he rapidly approached the pit in the ground created by the giant palm. Leyton recognized the Sanguine inside as Yaz, whom he had met not long ago. The latter was currently unconscious, with numerous burn and lightning strike marks on his body.

Leyton looked at Yaz lying on the ground, filled with confusion. Why was he here? Wasn't he supposed to be leaving Feynapotter with Paz and his sister? Where were Eliza and Paz?

"Hurry!" the crow on his shoulder urged.

Without further hesitation, Leyton bent down and pulled him out of the pit. He initially intended to carry him on his shoulder, but he already had a crow there, and it didn't seem inclined to move.

Leyton had no choice but to scoop him up in his arms, running outwards while saying, "Give me a blessing or some other buff. My stamina and physical fitness aren't enough for me to carry a person while sprinting through the jungle with a crow on my shoulder."

"Caw~"

As soon as Leyton finished speaking, he felt a lightness in his body, as if he had lost weight. Holding the unconscious Sanguine Yaz, Leyton sprinted back in the direction he came from.

"Change direction! Run towards the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom!" the crow on his shoulder said again.

Without wasting words, Leyton slightly adjusted his direction, gradually moving away from the area.

Not long after Leyton left, four or five people wearing the robes of the Church of the Earth Mother's clergy fell out from the gap torn open by the giant vine and arm. Almost all of them were heavily injured, but perhaps due to the powerful vitality of the Cultivator pathway, they didn't faint like Yaz.

After falling out, they first confirmed their surroundings and then immediately supported each other as they moved towards the Harvest Cathedral's Archbishop.

"Your Excellency Archbishop, that Viscount Sanguine has been unknowingly corrupted by the evil god 'Primordial Moon.' It should be related to his wife's death. The cause of this incident was his desire to revive his wife, but his subsequent plan didn't proceed as he intended. Instead, it was discovered and interfered with by a certain Great Existence" Uther quickly reported his findings to the Archbishop after approaching.

"I already know. You all leave here immediately. He's no longer planning to live," the Harvest Cathedral's Archbishop had already transformed into a giant bear about three meters tall.

As the Archbishop's words fell, on the other side where the arm had extended earlier, another arm broke through the vines' blockade and reached out, followed by more and more vines being torn and falling.

"Roar!" A giant blood-red humanoid wrapped in countless vines slowly stood up from the ground. Behind it were a pair of illusory blood-red wings, upon which countless distorted spirits seemed to be howling in pain. Countless illusory and maddening whispers echoed in the minds of everyone from the Church of the Earth Mother nearby.

The Harvest Cathedral's Archbishop's figure began to expand again, preparing to hold the opponent here while waiting for the Church's reinforcements.

The giant blood-red humanoid didn't make any attacking movements. After breaking free from the entanglement of countless giant vines, it only gazed longingly at the crimson moon in the sky.

"Wahhh~~" A mournful groan echoed in the silent night sky.

Everyone who heard this sound couldn't help but shed tears, even the Church of the Earth Mother's demigod bishop couldn't help but weep. Leyton, carrying Yaz and rapidly traversing through the bushes, felt a sudden surge of immense sorrow in his heart.

At that moment, Leyton only felt incredibly sad, as if nothing in the world mattered anymore, and the urge for self-destruction filled his mind.

Yaz, held by Leyton, shed tears in his unconsciousness, his expression turning ferocious and painful. On the other side, Captain Icontton and Mr. Kosith, who had already moved away from the area, suddenly turned their heads, looking in the direction behind them, with feelings of sadness welling up in their hearts for no reason.

"This is...? What happened?" Mr. Kosith, staring in the direction of the hospital, said in a hoarse voice, as if something was stuck in his throat.

"Caw~" The crow's loud cry on his shoulder brought him back to his senses. Suppressing the surging sadness and the self-destructive tendencies filling his mind, he changed from carrying to dragging the unconscious Yaz, fleeing rapidly away from the area.

This sadness didn't last long. The Harvest Cathedral's Archbishop had already launched an attack on the giant blood-red humanoid.

The surrounding ground rumbled, and several giant vines rose from the earth once again. At the same time, the Archbishop's lower body merged into the ground, and then the entire ground and stones were pulled upwards, forming a giant earth and stone golem with the upper half of a body and the lower half connected to the ground. The place where the Archbishop had been was exactly on top of the earth and stone golem's head.

Under the Archbishop's control, the giant earth and stone golem with half a body launched an attack on the giant humanoid that was entangled by the giant vines again. The earth and stone golem punched down, and the giant blood-red humanoid suddenly disintegrated, turning into countless tiny red streams of light scattered around, constantly spreading outwards. Any creature or even soil that was touched by it would be integrated into it, bringing about certain mutations.

"You! Damn it!!" The Harvest Cathedral's Archbishop, with half his body merged into the earth and stone golem, angrily roared in the form of a giant bear.

The out-of-control Viscount Sanguine disintegrated all of his characteristics and flesh into countless tiny fragments, allowing them to scatter around.

Here, living beings and even inanimate objects will undergo tremendous mutations in a short period. Moreover, due to incomplete characteristics, these mutated creatures will descend into madness and, following the Law of Beyonder Characteristics Convergence, begin to kill each other, recombining into a complete Beyonder characteristic.

Originally, the other party was just a viscount who had lost control and did not possess the ability to shatter Beyonder characteristics. However, he now actively disintegrates the characteristics already integrated into his flesh and blood, along with his own life and soul, by abandoning them, infusing them into everything around him before the Beyonder characteristics have time to separate.

Under these circumstances, no one can live here until the Church of the Earth Mother completely resolves the mutated creatures in this area. You must know that although this place is close to the suburbs, it still belongs to the city area. Even if the area covered by the flesh and blood disintegrated and scattered by the other party is not large, it will be difficult for the Church of the Earth Mother's personnel stationed in Madan City to completely resolve it in a short time.

"The only good news is probably that for tonight's operation, they have already secretly relocated the nearby residents in advance. Before, it was only a temporary relocation, but now it will most likely become a permanent relocation." The Archbishop transformed from a giant bear back into human form, sighing helplessly in his heart.

On the other side, Leyton, who was dragging Yaz through the jungle at high speed, suddenly felt a palpitation, as if a huge danger was roaring towards him. Before Leyton could react, a burst of red light engulfed him.

A faint blue glow surrounded Leyton, protecting him, Yaz, whom he was dragging, and the crow on his shoulder. The red light was isolated and could not reach Leyton and the others.

"Leave quickly, don't stop, or you will face a siege from a group of mutated creatures," the crow on his shoulder urged anxiously.

"I didn't expect that guy could go this far to avoid affecting his descendants. Is this humanity?" This was a sentence the crow didn't say out loud.

Leyton also realized the seriousness of the matter and ran outwards with all his might.

The surrounding plants were undergoing mutations at a speed visible to the naked eye. Some grew rapidly, and some even grew organs such as eyes and mouths. There was also a small grass growing on the ground that was no longer recognizable in its original form, but it had grown a pair of legs and stood up from the ground!

Leyton ran even faster. The scenes of mutation happening around him made Leyton feel that even if he wasn't attacked by these mutated creatures, he would go crazy if he stayed here for too long.

After running through a jungle for an unknown amount of time, the surrounding plants gradually returned to normal and became much sparser. The original road finally revealed itself under the cover of vegetation.

"Phew!" Finally relieved, Leyton slowed down a bit and identified his current location by recognizing the surrounding houses. Then, he found the right direction and hurried towards the Church of the God of Knowledge of Wisdom.

"Stop," the crow on his shoulder said at this moment.

"Are we in a safe zone now?" Leyton breathed a sigh of relief, threw away Yaz, whom he was dragging, and sat down on the ground with a thud, panting as he asked.

"Not yet, but this is already the edge, and it won't have a big impact on you. Further ahead, there will be church personnel relocating the people here, which is inconvenient." The crow on Leyton's shoulder flapped its wings and flew down.

Leyton nodded without asking why it was inconvenient. The crow raised its wings and then used its beak to tear off a red feather from it and throw it to Leyton.

"You insert this feather into your hat, and you can complete its seal," the crow said.

Then, it waved its wings, and many strange symbols outlined by faint blue fluorescent light emerged and merged into Yaz, who was thrown on the ground. Then, Yaz began to cough violently, accompanied by a lot of fluorescent light separating from Yaz and slowly beginning to gather, until one, two small worms with twelve transparent and translucent interlocking rings were spat out by Yaz.

These two Worms of Time were still alive. After being spat out, they distorted on the ground, trying to escape, but the crow swallowed them one by one in one bite.

Leyton's mind was a little dazed as he watched this scene, as if he had figured out some things, but also as if he was even more confused.

"You ate the Worms of Time? You..." Leyton's voice was hoarse, and his eyes were full of vigilance as he looked at the crow in front of him.

"You actually recognize the Worms of Time, that's right, but don't worry, just two Worms of Time are not enough to parasitize me. Even if this is just an incarnation, the consciousness I projected over is not an incarnation, and there is no Amon's avatar here. The other party left when my Lord cast his gaze down," the crow said in a tone that was impossible to discern emotions.

"What do you want the Worms of Time for? For Amon's research results?" Since the other party had already revealed his identity, Leyton didn't hesitate and asked directly.

"How did you guess that this was just an experiment done by Amon? Because of that clown?" The crow, an angel incarnation of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, asked instead.

After knowing that there was no Amon's avatar here, Leyton felt relieved. The confirmation from the God of Knowledge was still trustworthy. The God of Knowledge also possesses some of the authority of fate and can discover those creatures parasitized by the Amons.

Leyton nodded: "Almost. Until I knew that the clown could split himself into three, and each one seemed to have sewn together the characteristics of multiple pathways, and these pathways were adjacent pathways, I had some guesses. Moreover, there are not many existing angels in these three pathways. Until you brought out these two Worms of Time, I was sure that this was Amon's prank, and also his probing and research?"

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