As the unfamiliar greeting came out, the scene of "fellows meeting fellows" that Angel was looking forward to did not appear. "Abomination" stood motionless next to the black boulder. His ice-blue eyes looked at her without emotion, and the voice of Farbauti in his head was as calm as water:
"As long as you are clear about this, there is no need to say hello again."
He also uses English.
At least it's not American pronunciation, it's a bit like Australian pronunciation, or it may be influenced by the pronunciation of the language in this life... As expected, Farbauti is really a time traveler, and judging from his crazy ancient god experience, he either directly "taken over" the identity of "Devil Monarch" who has become God The body was either half-mad from the beginning, but got better after expelling some of its characteristics... According to the map of the old world, the location of the "abyss" is very likely to be at Australia. He didn't fall directly into the abyss when the old world was destroyed, and was "Body Transmigration" like Sun God, right?
Angel was a little surprised, but he noticed that the other party's attitude was very casual, and he quickly restrained his unnecessary emotions to avoid being affected by Devil's negative emotions.
Moreover, she found that Farbauti's response was too bland and inconsistent with the previous behavior of deliberately revealing her identity as a "traveler".
Could it be that He already knew that there were other time travelers in this world? Ancient Sun God Grisha, Emperor Caesar Roselle are extremely public and traceable, but I did not show any abnormality at all...Klein and Roselle who know my identity are unlikely to have communicated with Devil Monarch...
Doubts gradually arose in her mind, but she instantly locked onto a suspect present.
No, suspect the god.
He slightly raised his head and looked up with his eyes. Another question that Angel had already had was answered.
"Evernight Goddess" Amanises is really a time traveler.
She and Klein had doubts about this before, and with their understanding of Apocalypse and the reshaping of Second Epoch's ancient history, this question almost had an answer.
But getting confirmation from God, another traveler, gave her a feeling of relief as if her heart had dropped.
With the help of this answer, Angel also knew that the "Farbauti" talking to her at this time was not the Abomination in front of her, but the real Devil Monarch located at Physical World. Otherwise, the clone that has been sleeping is unlikely to reach a tacit understanding with Goddess and have a conversation through her during Dream Festival.
Of course, this matter was not the focus of her entrance into Dream Invasion today, so Angel quickly came to her senses and stopped trying to get close to this cold "fellow". She turned to the topic and continued using English:
"This ritual of sealing your clone has begun to affect the outside world. The annual concentration of deaths has attracted the attention of 'Numinous Episcopate'. I guess the believer of Outer Deity will soon learn about this and try to get this Sequence 1 Characteristic, so that 'Chained God' becomes the True God controlled by him."
Farbauti's wild laughter sounded in her mind again, followed by English with a heavy nasal sound and a long, rising tail:
"This is a matter of time. When Dream Festival was originally designed, neither Salinger nor I expected that it would need to last for such a long time.
"I used 'Chained' Pathway's ability to make different emotions and desires independent of each other to separate this clone. Salinger made this Golden Mask, allowing the clone to transform into an undead creature, keeping its spirit and consciousness alive, sleeping in the tomb influenced by the tributaries of 'River of Eternal Darkness'.
"The town in Physical World serves as the nourishment of 'desire'. The Dream Festival ceremony will absorb the negative emotions and extreme desires of local residents, and the formed 'Dreamwalker' will appear in the dream. They sacrifice and protect the ancient tomb to prevent this clone from waking up. When Dream Festival comes, all residents will sink into Dream Invasion, reintegrate with extreme emotions, and enter the next cycle after releasing themselves in the dream.
"As for the victims you mentioned, that was the outcome caused by their own emotions... Dream Festival just focused on releasing such extreme emotions, and as long as they did not die in the dream, nothing would happen after returning to reality, and the disability and psychological shadow would be less than without Dream Festival. Do you think I harmed them or saved them?"
Farbauti's last sophistry left Angel speechless. She instinctively felt that it was not right to sacrifice a normal person to protect a clone of Devil, but when choosing between a copy of "Abomination" characteristics and thousands of small town residents, her rationality would choose the former.
I was almost taken into a ditch by this big Devil... Angel frowned and stopped thinking about the problem. Just as he was about to say something, Farbauti smiled again and added:
"Of course, if you feel that these deaths are unnecessary, you can completely formulate new 'Dream Festival' rules. As long as it does not interfere with the collection and circulation of negative emotions, the ancient tomb can continue to exist, and my clone will continue to sleep. This is a good thing for me and the world."
Mainly for yourself... Angel has always had a hard time matching this sometimes kind-hearted, sometimes arrogant and wanton "Devil Monarch" with a time-traveler from the same era as himself. The Klein who had been with her for a long time, the Roselle who wrote the diary, and the Grisha who ended Dark Ages in ancient times gave her completely different feelings.
Fortunately, the other party's reminder to ask Angel to make the rules was regarded as Devil's tears. The last trace of kindness made her immediately think of the role of "Trunsoest Brass Book" Grade 0 Sealed Artifact.
This matter can be left to the end... She calmed down and continued to ask:
"What about you? I mean this doppelganger of yours."
"Of course I will continue to stay in 'Dream Festival'. Compared with Physical World, it is more hidden and safer. People in high positions are difficult to approach because of the danger of Sefirah. Low Sequence is here. It has no effect unless, like you, you have the favor of another Sefirah... Because of the effect of Similarity Law, its sleeping is equivalent to the sleeping of another part of pollution and crazy consciousness in my body, which helps to improve my current state."
Farbauti answered, not minding at all that Angel and Goddess behind her learned that "Devil Monarch" was in extremely bad condition at the moment.
"Also, there is something you and those beings behind you should want to know. "He continued, "After Four Emperors War, it was not only 'Mother Tree of Desire' who gradually had a deeper influence on me, but also another person who was above me, who seemed to be the origin of everything, Omniscience and Omnipotence. I think His resurrection is closely related to the behavior of Tudor and Primordial Demoness."
Omniscience and Omnipotence... that "God Almighty"? Because He accommodated "Tenebrous World" before his fall, does He also have a similar influence on Farbauti as Mother Tree of Desire? This Devil Monarch won't suddenly say "God Almighty has awakened in my body" one day, right? That's such a hell of a joke... Angel Thoughts kept flashing through his mind and he said:
"Maybe it's because 'Tenebrous World', like 'Chaos Sea' and 'Knowledge Moor', were all accommodated by Omniscient and Almighty."
"I thought so too, but...'Knowledge Moor'?"
"Abomination", who was standing motionless at the door of the ancient tomb, turned his ice blue eyes and looked over again, with a smile and playfulness, which was almost synchronized with the words in Angel's mind:
"That Pillar has never tolerated this Sefirah. The only ones affected by him are 'Chaos Sea', 'Tenebrous World' and...'City of Calamity'."
What?
The words of Devil in Angel's mind completely disappeared, and the clone of Devil Monarch "Abomination" also nodded slowly, turned around and walked back to the inside of the tomb, lying down quietly in the depths that she could barely see, with no intention of taking the opportunity to escape from the seal.
But she couldn't care about it at all, and the doubts deep in her memory kept pouring out:
Not Knowledge Moor, but City of Calamity?
The Sefirah that I have always relied on was once accommodated by "God Almighty", one of the Pillar-level Great Old One?
"Storm Gathering" has similar capabilities to "Storm" Pathway, which Church of Storms once used;
Adam said that "Phantom Phosphor Eruption" was invented by Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun as early as Fourth Epoch;
Edwina hints that Church of Knowledge has the production method of "Shattered Light Ray", and the main gun of her flagship "Golden Dream" also has the power to sink warships of the same level with one hit;
After I was killed by Devil who was suspected to have the ability of "Hunter", the body entered "City of Calamity" inexplicably, so that I traveled to this era...
Could it be that I am similar to Klein, the "resurrection back-up" of a certain Pillar?
Then why does He show no sign of affecting me at all? Has he completely fallen, or has he been resurrected through other means?
The more Angel thought about it, the more her scalp became numb. Her eyes were a bit out of focus as she watched "Abomination" Farbauti lie down inside the tomb with the appearance of a black boulder. The stone door did not close immediately. The faint sound of the river in her ears became clearer, and the cold and peaceful breath almost surrounded her.
Only then did she notice that some illusory water seeped out of the Black Ancient Tomb outer walls on both sides of the stone door. They gathered on the ground and flowed in the middle, forming a river in front of the open tomb door that was not very wide, but was deep inside, giving the illusion of breadth and vastness.
On the surface of the river, a slightly blurry figure emerged. He was sitting cross-legged in front of the tomb door, wearing a high rusty crown and a black robe. His hands were folded in the wide cuffs. His face was as white as jade, and a pale beard hung down around his mouth.
It is a tributary of "River of Eternal Darkness", and "Underworld Daoist" who voluntarily entered it to suppress the evil... Angel had a clear understanding, and the messy thoughts in his heart were settled in the cold power of Sefirah.
Then, the old man who was supposed to be dead, but whose will was "in harmony" with Sefirah, shook his shoulders, pulled out his arms from his sleeves, and found cracks all over, with oily feathers growing out of them, and his right hand dripping with pus stretched forward, with the palm facing up.
Angel silently untied "Hidden Holy Emblem" from his left wrist, letting it float toward the illusory river along with the gathered power, and was caught by "Underworld Daoist" in his hand.
The power that was as dark and quiet as the night sky attached to the surface of the Holy Emblem seeped into the opponent's pale and dull skin. Another black mist with white in the white and black in the white seeped out, and the exchange returned to the inside of the Holy Emblem, completely wrapping up the already weak "Blood Emperor" aura, almost disappearing.
Snap——
"Underworld Daoist" flicked his middle finger and thumb, and the changed Hidden Holy Emblem spun back to Angel. She caught it and immediately felt a deathly coldness coming from her palm. On the contrary, the crazy and bloodthirsty aura of Tudor completely disappeared.
The divine power of Goddess has disappeared, but the aura of "Underworld Daoist" is even stronger, and it can be controlled by me. I can open and close it at will to decide whether to release the remaining power of Tudor... Angel felt the changes in the holy symbol and raised his head again, only to find that the figure sitting cross-legged had disappeared, and the flowing illusory river also flowed back into Black Ancient Tomb. The stone door that was pushed closed closed on its own, and the tomb door was about to be completely closed.
"By the way, I almost forgot about this..."
Farbauti's real voice came from inside the door, not from her mind. A small thing flew out from the crack in the door, rolled a few times on the ground full of humus, and stopped at Angel's feet.
I forgot... are you affected by the Sleepless part of "River of Eternal Darkness"? Angel cursed and picked up the dark red object the size of a fist.
It was a heart with a semi-dry surface and twisted blood vessels like earthworms.
"A few years ago, the tombkeepers picked up this heart nearby. Because of its similar power and characteristics, they thought it was my clone that had mutated and the heart escaped on its own, so they sacrificed it..."
Farbauti Before he could finish his words, the stone door slammed shut as if someone had pulled it shut, blocking out all the rest of his words.
It should be the door closed by "Underworld Daoist"... The power of this heart is similar to that of "Abomination". Is it a part of the body of "Ancient Bane" Reinette?
Angel smiled, put away today's only harvest, and looked back at the gravekeepers who had been suppressed by the power of conquest, far away from Black Ancient Tomb, and knelt down around the open space, only to find that these Beyonders who had reached Mid Sequence were lying on the ground, their faces Distortion, and their facial features bleeding, and they were already dead.
The extreme emotions and desires in my heart were triggered... It was indeed "Devil Monarch". If I hadn't been useful to him and Goddess was watching, he would probably have killed me together to keep Secret Keeping secret... Angel smacked his lips and looked at Black Ancient Tomb again.
Before the end of "Dream Festival," she can still do something useful for the town.
Palm Estate In a bedroom on the third floor of the main house.
Amandina, who had black hair shawl and her face had not fully grown yet but was already beginning to look attractive, hugged Ice Mirror tightly, who gave off a cold breath but made her feel extremely at ease. She huddled in the corner of the room and stared closely at the window that opened to the town.
The interior of the manor was still quiet. The parents, servants and plantation workers who had been knocked unconscious by the black-haired, round-faced sister had not yet woken up. However, the sound of approaching footsteps and shouts could be heard in the distance. She could barely hear clearly that the other party was discussing how to burn down her father's manor and drag out all the big shots who usually despised them.
Get rid of it... Those ridiculous scenes just now appeared in her mind again, and she hugged Ice Mirror on her chest tightly, almost rubbing it into her body.
At this moment, a force that made people's scalp tense and limbs stiffened swept across the entire manor and the entire Tizamo Town.
An extremely majestic voice came to her ears, saying in Ancient Feysac that she had only scratched the surface of in grammar class:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am your new Consul.
"Now by the behest of the great Angel Granger Miss, hereby promulgates the following Order:
"Article 1, all living beings are equal before the law, even Angel can be killed by ordinary people, except of course Miss Angel.
"Article 2, you can do anything during Dream Festival, except for the following things: murder, rape... Anyone who disobeys the order will die.
"Article 3..."
As the voice continued to repeat the above law with Intisian, Dutanese, Amandina found that the noise outside the window disappeared.
Those who wanted to kill father and mother left? Are they... abiding by the law just now?
Amandina secretly stuck his head out of the window and noticed that the gunshots that rang out intermittently in the small town not far away also stopped.
Angel Granger Miss... She pursed her lips and covered her crystal-clear face Ice Mirror tighter.