The moment he saw the figure of "Blood Emperor", Angel thought that God had been resurrected underground from Trier, who had fallen a thousand years ago.
This is not unimaginable. After all, in her experience, "Death" and "Ancient Sun God" both had their own resurrection plans. Some failed, and some had major problems. But with them as examples, it is not surprising that "Blood Emperor" would pop out of any corner.
But after a little inspection, Angel discovered that although it only occupied a corner of the spring, the tall and mighty figure was just a translucent phantom, not even as good as the "substitute Tudor" summoned by Antigonus.
Of course, His aura is real enough, and the sight that instantly ignites the desire to fight, crazy thoughts, and violent emotions in those around him is hard to resist. But Angel activated the "City of Calamity" mark in her body before entering the cave. This power of Sefirah dissipated the aura around her that made living beings quickly enter death and Eternal Sleep, and also blocked the influence of the figure who exuded a violent and vicious aura that was no less violent and vicious than that of "Blood Emperor".
There is no doubt that without the protection of Sefirah, just the phantom of "Blood Emperor" in "Samaritan Women's Spring" is enough to make a Saint lose control, just like seeing the complete Mythical Creature with your own eyes.
While Angel can resist this power, it will be infected by the ubiquitous and pervasive "River of Eternal Darkness" aura, quickly heading towards the inevitable death.
So, this spring water is the power leaked by "River of Eternal Darkness"? But it is connected to the fourth floor of Underground Catacombs, and is guarded by an old man who seems to have difficulty noticing High Sequence Beyonder's arrival. Isn't it a little too hasty... Angel Thoughts kept bursting out in his mind.
Maybe these springs are just things polluted by the power of "River of Eternal Darkness", or they are the projection of the authority it represents in reality, such as War Fog outside "City of Calamity", such as the gray mist attached to "Sefirah Castle"... As soon as she made a guess, she found that the figure of "Blood Emperor" Tudor standing in the spring started to move.
This figure, which gave people the illusion of being as tall as a mountain, stepped foot after foot into the silt-like material beside the deep spring. The magma-like liquid on its body fell and was extinguished by the dim spring water.
He walked to the edge of the spring with difficulty, stretched out his huge hand shrouded in colorless flames, and grabbed Angel.
Angel did not dodge or try to fight back, but quietly watched the movements of the "Blood Emperor" shadow.
Because she noticed that the spring water below the shadow was surging, chasing and restricting the movements of God.
The spring water spread like a rising tide and quickly caught up with Tudor who was about to reach the edge of the moist, dark mud. They gathered together, making it difficult for him to move forward. The gray-white mist filled the air and rose to his waist, pulling his body like an invisible giant hand and dragging him deep into the spring.
"..."
The unwilling Tudor phantom raised its head, and an indescribable strange sound surged from its rotten lips, like a roar or a whine.
The figures beside Him that either had bone wings, wore golden crowns, or had pus all over their bodies were driven by this roar, bypassing the huge "Blood Emperor" and rushing toward Angel.
They were also restricted and could not go out of the "Samaritan Women's Spring" range, but they took advantage of the opportunity when the spring water was wrestling with Tudor to come to the edge of the wet mud, stretched out their arms of different shapes to grab her, and seemed to pull her into the spring together.
There are not even a bunch of Beyonder Characteristic, but the lonely ghosts enslaved by the phantom of "Blood Emperor" want to drag me into the water?
Angel sneered. The anger in her body that had been suppressed by reason surged into her heart inspired by the actions of these monsters and "Blood Emperor" Tudor. She reached out and grabbed it into the air, and a mirror image of a "0" level Sealed Artifact appeared in her hands.
She did not try to summon "Salinger’s Blood Banner" because this Uniqueness of Red Priest Pathway had shown signs of losing control when facing the stand-in Tudor, and facing the shadow in the spring whose temperament was more like that God, the blood flag might even help him deal with herself.
Appearing next to her is "Sword of Glory"!
The gray-yellow mist instantly spread to the entire underground space, and the orange-red light flickered and enveloped the pus-oozing woman, the crowned rotten corpse, and the winged monster with oil-stained feathers that struggled to crawl in front of her and stretched out her arms, making their movements almost stagnant.
Immediately, they straightened up, turned their heads, and stared at "Blood Emperor" Tudor struggling in the spring water with unkind eyes.
Because Bradel has been cursed by the power of "death", "Sword of Glory" can control undead creatures that are corroded by the gray-yellow poisonous mist, which naturally includes these monsters wandering in Samaritan Women's Spring. If "Blood Emperor" itself does not have the personality of God, his phantom might also be affected.
Seeing that his temporary subordinate betrayed him in an instant, the tall shadow surrounded by spring water and almost being dragged into the depths was stunned for a moment, shaking again and letting out an invisible roar, but those Pure Black eyes filled with madness revealed undisguised madness.
The weird undead creatures around were about to help the spring water push Tudor back to the depths of the spring, when they received a new "order" and turned to look at Angel, changing their alignment again.
There is a feeling of two "Marionettist" competing for Spirit Body Threads... Angel chuckled secretly, no longer wasting energy to win the loyalty of these wallflowers, but waved his hand Bone Sword let invisible sword blades mixed with Petrification, sluggishness and death pass through the distance between her and "Blood Emperor" and merge into the raging spring water.
Swish——
They exploded inside the huge figure, tearing apart the invisible flames and magma-like liquid on its surface. Pieces of flames and magma fell into the pale spring water, making a sizzling sound and emitting illusory smoke.
At this moment, more spring water gushes out of "Samaritan Women's Spring" again, rushing towards "Blood Emperor" and those monsters who are not sure who to listen to, like a river bursting its banks, sweeping them back into the dark hole in the center.
Only the tall figure Tudor reluctantly bent his knees and grabbed the mud at the edge of the spring with his hands, staring at Angel with his black eyes.
No matter what you look at, you have been dead for more than a thousand years, just go back and lie down... Angel murmured and raised "Sword of Glory". Just as he was about to give him the final blow, his eyes suddenly darkened, and a deep black light with a dark red rust color broke through the cover of the spring water and the fog, and shot straight at Angel.
In anticipation of the opponent's counterattack, she blocked "Sword of Glory" in front of her, only to find that the dark red rust passed through Bone Sword as if invisible, and landed on the gift mark she had previously unbuttoned to reveal.
Wow, Angel's suddenly stiff figure turned into pieces of mirror fragments and fell to the ground. Her figure was outlined from the side and she grabbed one of them.
Inside the fragment, dots of dark red flashed continuously, and a violent breath and hot touch came from it, causing Angel's anger that had calmed down because "Blood Emperor" to recede to emerge again.
At this moment, a pale palm suddenly appeared behind Tudor, who had been dragged deep into the spring, half of his body was sucked into the dark hole, and was still struggling.
The skin of this palm is as crystal clear as jade, but pale and dull. The fingers are long and the nails are well-proportioned, but there are cracks on the back of the hand, and either yellowish pus leaks out from the inside, or a few oil-stained feathers squeeze out.
It climbed directly from the back towards Tudor's face that was so rotten that the metal bones were exposed. It covered his roar and crazy eyes with the palm of his hand and pressed him into the dark hole in the center of the spring.
The hole that was so dark that it seemed as if it led deep into the earth had absorbed all the spring water, leaving only the moist mud around it. Angel looked intently and noticed that the crystal white arm inside the hole was connected to a figure that was about to disappear into the darkness.
He is an old man wearing an iron crown and a black robe. His face and arms are as white as jade, his eyes are as dark as ink, and a pale beard hangs from his chin.
Angel was deeply surprised by the completely different figures from Tudor and his temporary subordinates. He couldn't help but take a few steps forward and came to the edge of the range previously covered by "Samaritan Women's Spring". He was only one step away from stepping into the dark mud.
While she was observing the old man's figure, the old man's dark eyes also turned around. The hand covered with feathers, oil, and pus stretched forward slightly, and pointed his slender index finger at her.
The cold, deathly aura that originally enveloped the entire Underground Area, but was repulsed by the power of Angel's "City of Calamity", became condensed, gathered around the spring like substance, and then shot towards the "Hidden Holy Emblem" on Angel...'s wrist.
The dark red light in the mirror fragment in her hand and the violent and crazy aura of Tudor were stagnated, and they were attracted to the dark holy symbol, surrounded by a layer of mist that alternated between pale and deep black.
The burning sensation transmitted to Angel immediately turned cold, giving her a sense of familiarity.
Is it the feeling when "Hidden Holy Emblem" is activated... the power of "dark" Pathway? No, it's "River of Eternal Darkness". The power it dissipates is "Samaritan Women's Spring". Alistar Tudor fell here and was eroded and sealed by the power of Sefirah. He kept trying to escape but was dragged back to his original place by the spring...
But who is this old man? "Death Consul" Liers who fell here? No, the rotting corpse wearing the golden crown just now should be Him. Corresponding to it is the figure of Church of Evernight, the former Pope Marian, and more dead souls of Angel... The one who can restrain the shadow of one God is probably another God, or the favored one of "Sefirah"...
Angel's thoughts were spinning in his mind. He hesitated for a moment, and when the figure of the old man who helped him seal the "Blood Emperor" aura was about to disappear, he asked:
"Who are you?"
Just like when talking to Krismona, she used Ancient Hermes, but the old man just put his hands back into the wide cuffs of his robe, sat cross-legged, and sank into the dark holes together with the pale, illusory spring water.
A short but melodious answer floated out of the hole and echoed repeatedly in the underground space.
That is a language that Angel has just learned and is not yet proficient in using it.
That is Chinese!